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I really liked that you brought it up, it was the first time I heard of the song. (and unlike many others here, I also enjoyed the song) I felt like it blew up even more in the following week.
Reddit really started as a link conglomerator. And we have done a weird thing reddit-wise by trying to move away from that towards more of a forum. I think link congolmerators are great at sharing news. You scan through a bunch of headlines to find a thing that interests you and you click through to it if you want the link, or if you want the discussion about the link you can click on the comments.
We have gravitated just towards providing the discussion aspect of reddit. But it comes with very real tradeoffs. One of those tradeoffs is that it takes more effort to actually share a link, so fewer links and sources are shared. We know this, but it is a feature not a bug. Our goal is not for you to learn of news items here, it is to have a place to discuss them. Because we believe most of the web sucks for discussing things, and there are already lots of great places for finding news items. Even reddit is still a great place for finding news items, even as I feel that it has become a worse and worse place for discussing them.
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