That, of course, goes out the window when the person you're arguing with legitimately identifies as a Nazi.

Respectfully, Twitter is kind of living proof of the opposite -- clearly they can overwhelm/outvote people (and even out-spend regular folks, if you throw an $8 price tag barrier up), despite being a small number of the total population.

there clearly is a gulf between people who actively wish to make it so and those who consume the byproduct of their effort.

This line of reasoning goes nowhere.

If you think the solution to blocking a sub (or all of Reddit) is "a hundred million people can just all decide to go somewhere else the next day", you fundamentally misunderstand how the community and network effect works.

Some of that hundred million would disappear, sure, but hey - what percentage of subscribers are relatively inactive anyway?

For sure.

Knowing there’s a backlash against the backlash, I wonder if Reddit triples down and forcibly flips back to public all the top subreddits that went private.

There’s the problem of real quick finding new mods for like 8,000 subreddits. I’m sure the tail is long, but they’d probably start with the biggest and work their way down.

Ultimately all the data and code lives on Reddit servers. They can do whatever they want. The way they’ve acted so far I don’t see them backing down.

Casual participation doesn't get the job done.

The idea that reddit would benefit without these users is just a complete misunderstanding of what reddit is and what creates reddit's value.

I bet most views at this point are just the generic popular view, not driven by a subscription to a sub.

Split old.reddit off into an "old school" version that has 3rd party apps, but needs a subscription to access. Then keep new reddit as their tiktok Instagram clone.

... what? Reddit is absolutely not the only place to discuss an NBA game.