It has NEVER been a real place.

I was there from day zero... to give some context I mailed spez his own source code when his server was misconfigured for VERBOSE error reporting. This was when he was trying to program a user registration system.

The very first conversations had on Reddit, and I'm including myself in this, were all squabbling about useless horseshit.

Reddit has always been a shitshow. Bacon, narwhals, and so forth to convince people that there's some kind of community there, when there is not and never has been.

At least they shot themselves with the API changes, because before that a lot more people had trouble seeing what they had become.