As a way to create a community "I want to ignore anything that isn't a direct answer to a specific question" is something of an anti-feature.

I've never made lasting connections with people from Reddit/HN for exactly that reason.

I wonder if that's gonna work against the boycott here. If for most people Reddit is more StackOverflow question+answer + TV (mindless background scrolling) than a sticky community/communities, than that will make mass migration that much harder to coordinate and manage.