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Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US by kazinator on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:55PM (#17192242)
> their neighborhood would simply not have the correct prerequisites to form that group (i.e members).

Or: wouldn't have the right kind of lunatics in the numbers needed to form a sufficiently reverberant echo chamber.

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Re:Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US by zaphar on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @07:28PM (#17192766)
The thing is you can't have one without the other. You can't enable niche communities in a platform without also enabling communities that you consider reprehensible. You can try but all such attempts tend to devolve into a game of whackamole and frequent bad PR storms.
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