Terrible choice caving into the pseudo-moralists, but they’ve been going down a bad path for a long time. They should’ve looked at the cautionary tale of Tumblr before committing this own goal. Making sweeping changes to fit in with corporate agendas may be popular among their own class, but it also has the longer-term effect of sacrificing the user base. And they’ve been hemorrhaging for a while anyway. Where do they think their future profits will come from?
The problem with Reddit turning into Instagram is that IG already exists.
At the rate they’re going, their actual destination is Tumblr, a company that destroyed their brand trying to fit in with generic corporate BigTech.