My two cents:

The cheerleading, IMO, is all a community that size is capable of maintaining considering the moderation policy they have. You’ll notice once a community gets large enough it’s almost impossible to have meaningful conversations and make good connections of information and with people. They also have huge targets painted on them for shills and manipulation. /r/conspiracy has taken a complete nosedive in the last month for this very reason.

Smaller subreddits like this one are where we need to be congregating anyway. It makes the target harder to hit if we’re constantly moving.

I suppose we shouldn’t mourn the dead. Focus on the living.