[neilv]

> What Reddit Got Wrong

If you saw that title a month ago, you might read "Reddit" there as "the people talking on Reddit".

Whether it was people's emerging consensus/behavior on a noteworthy incident, a more general zeitgeist or Reddit Hive Mind exhibited over time there, or whatever.

Reading "Reddit" in the title instead as "Reddit, the company" is less familiar to me.

[lstamour]

Highlights how hands off Reddit generally was until now that while we say “Twitter” vs “on Twitter” or “YouTube” vs “YouTuber”, until now we rarely distinguished between “Reddit” and “on Reddit”. Reddit was an invisible benefactor until it wasn’t…