What do you think it is about Reddit that brings that experience that's very different than talking online in other places?

I think there's a couple of, there's a couple of choices that we made in the early days that we just got right, and I think the two I would highlight would be comments.

We just kinda got the comment sort algorithm right.

And I know that's like a minor thing, but, like, it means you go into a comment thread, and, like, because you have a, this kind of combination of, like, the whole thread's sorted, up votes and down votes, the trolls get kinda pushed to the bottom, and, like, it just kinda means that everything that's up at the top is just kind of, like, genuinely interesting or funny or a complete takedown of the post that's very comprehensively researched and thought about.

We just put a lot of emphasis on this kind of, like, long form intelligent discourse as part of the culture, and it sorta stuck, and the comment threads made sure that there was actually a good, healthy discussion happening attached to them.

The second thing was actually the subreddit model.

We built an engine for people to be able to create communities around a topic or interest that, that was important to them, and that meant that we weren't building a single product.

When did you first kind of become aware that, like, LLMs were reading Reddit and training on Reddit, and it was impacting their understanding of the world?