This whole thing has been about:
[1] Reddit not building the needed tools for its free labor and relying on third parties to do it for them, then taking those tools away without providing another option
[2] Disrespecting moderators and powerusers by insulting them ("landed gentry"), creating incentives for them to scab on each other, and being threatening and doublehanded at every turn, if not outright lying.
[3] A decade of broken promises on feature development, trust n safety failures, half baked features that no one asked for that end up shut down.
[4] Breaking the illusion that users ever owned their data (posts, comments) and communities.
Not all these reasons apply to everyone, but at least one of them applies to most people protesting.
Reddit has built up so much bad will. They could have been a great steward of the internet (and made money doing it!), but instead they decided to attack their community of moderators (the same insult they hurl at moderators, saying they are attacking their community of users!)
Discord, for its faults, does not have the same issues.
[1] Reddit not building the needed tools for its free labor and relying on third parties to do it for them, then taking those tools away without providing another option
[2] Disrespecting moderators and powerusers by insulting them ("landed gentry"), creating incentives for them to scab on each other, and being threatening and doublehanded at every turn, if not outright lying.
[3] A decade of broken promises on feature development, trust n safety failures, half baked features that no one asked for that end up shut down.
[4] Breaking the illusion that users ever owned their data (posts, comments) and communities.
Not all these reasons apply to everyone, but at least one of them applies to most people protesting.
Reddit has built up so much bad will. They could have been a great steward of the internet (and made money doing it!), but instead they decided to attack their community of moderators (the same insult they hurl at moderators, saying they are attacking their community of users!)
Discord, for its faults, does not have the same issues.