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    IMO it's not fair to go against implementation quality like that, as any video delivery mechanism is going to have significant growing pains - Youtube did, though most users aren't aware of this...
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    Users of the site can attest to it’s terrible loading times, stuttering playback, and generally unfavorable presence

    IMO it's not fair to go against implementation quality like that, as any video delivery mechanism is going to have significant growing pains - Youtube did, though most users aren't aware of this since most users didn't use youtube back then. If we hold the standard to 'must meet or exceed Youtube quality at scale' then we have effectively granted Youtube an unassailable monopoly for eternity. And there is enough about Reddit to criticise without needing to do that.

    It's also an issue not of 'Reddit used to be great and no longer is', but 'Reddit used to be this, now it is that' - for people that wanted this it is a bad thing, for people wanted that it is a good thing. Going from great to not great makes no sense and prevents us from understanding the key issue (the conclusion about going from great to not great might be 'the execs are dumbasses'). Knowing that it is instead going from this to that indicates that it's a disruptive tech 'pivot' rather than dumb management.

    That distinction is important, because if the issue was dumb execs, then using Reddit's old model with 'not dumb' execs could be expected to solve the issue. If the issue was a change based on a pivot, then it depends on whether that pivot is necessary based on the initial operating model (I believe it is) - that tells you the Reddit model could never stay working as it did, and it doesn't matter who you had at the helm. This is embedded in the Tildes model already, which is why scale/growth is not a goal, and advertising doesn't exist.

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