But if you're still shopping at Costco then you don't really care about the effects that these big box stores have on small town economies.

You're just into performative activism.

But Costco does have better working conditions so I'll give you that.

Hear me out.

It's right next to Costco, literally in the same mall.

Products are kind of shittier but they're good enough. But good enough is better for me because the rest of the experience is just better.

Walking through Sam's Club is often a breeze whereas through Costco I waddle like a penguin sandwiched between a waddle of penguins, each competing for enough space and quiet and mental clarity to score a good purchase.

It can be panic inducing.

At Sam's Club I don't even walk to a cash register. I pay with my phone and I'm out.

They don't even ask me to show my ID at the door.

I think it's a combination of:

1. Ragebait being so useful at generating engagement that it's become a standard form of human interaction

2. The Internet making people feel safe from physical repercussions which makes people feel comfortable with treating others badly

3. Internet communities quickly becoming echo chambers where you're forced to pick a side if you want a sense of belonging

So we've been programmed and manipulated to be angry, to be tribal, and to act without fear of retaliation, and all for what? For ads and followers.

1 person talking about how they wish react native didn't exist

1 person asking about Capacitor

1 person complaining about Expo

1 person saying that they wouldn't use react native and recommending Kotlin Multiplatform instead

1 person complaining about the quality of the discussion (Me)

0 people talking about the new architecture

I still love Hacker News but the discussions are becoming increasingly pointless.

All that's missing is:

1 person complaining about the style in which the article was written

And no, there are no other movie theater chains available. And no, going to a matinee doesn't solve these problems. And there is no solution to these problems because they've become normalized so people will rush to defend them.

Interacting with other mod teams we've learned that this mod scarcity is apparently universal.

None of this matters to reddit because in all honesty they would probably be happier and more profitable by converting the website into a read only feed of memes and kittens.

We talked to an admin who reviewed our logs and they were surprised by the fact that our community was modded as a team because most of the communities that they had seen and worked with were apparently modded almost exclusively by a single person.

I thought at first that this was a joke because our head mod does most of the work and because we get new mods every year and they always leave.

So when our head mod leaves the subs will die. We'll become /r/worldpolitics. And there's a good chance that he'll leave during the protest.

What I'm trying to say is that we often see moderators as interchangeable, one leaves and another joins and nothing changes, but the reality is that good mods are scarce. I don't expect an inexperienced mod to join a sub with half a million users and know what to do. Most of our team doesn't know how to use the automoderator. I'm the only one who knows how to use the custom automation bot that I wrote. And then there's the issue of understanding the culture.

So whether reddit lives or dies in my opinion won't be a matter of how fast reddit can replace moderators but a matter of how many moderators will stay and put up with the bullshit because it has become part of their lives.

UNIX was not an option for most people which is one of the reasons why NT killed the Unix workstation market and Microsoft software like IIS, MS SQL and Exchange was already established when Linux gained mainstream adoption.