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>I remember Reddit before it started to clean up its house. It was worse.

And yet that was the time when reddit was considered more balanced and open. People gathered there to discuss ideas. The future of the platform looked great. Nowadays virtually all popular subreddits are considered echo chambers and the future for the platform looks questionable.

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> the future of the platform looked great

Not with the subreddits it was hosting it didn't. The future of Reddit looked unviable as a business. I won't name names, but it's obvious that some of the content was wholly incompatible with mainstream acceptance and for good reason.

Obviously some things will come and go when things become mainstream. That's natural. But reddit going mainstream is probably why it became the way it is now. Suddenly, reddit had a lot of influence, so people started paying more attention to what went on there and tried to change it.

Considered by who?

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