Reddit’s unnecessarily antagonistic approach to this provided the basis for my deleting my account. The messaging, the aggressive posturing, the intentional falsehoods…it’s all been very off-putting and there was always a much easier path here for Reddit to achieve what it wanted without alienating so many of its users and mods. I don’t need to hope they will fail…the odds are their failure will simply be a function of time, as has been the case for many other platforms. Turns out much like the world, the Internet is a big place and there’s no lacking for online communities.