I have been on reddit for just about 12 years now. Something I’ve noticed over time is just how hateful the place has become. A complete outrage machine. Every single sub became filled with it. I’ve filtered so many subreddits over the last few years, it’s insane. I don’t know enough about this place to be sure, but I do hope it doesn’t become the same type of echo chamber of anger.
That must have been an interesting time to be part of the team there! Reddit was an amazing site back in the day, and it’s a tragedy that so much good and interesting “internet firsts” that it did/enabled are being lost now with the crap.
There’s no obligation, but the lemmy/kbin github projects might get some use out of your knowledge. They’re a bit overwhelmed right now and everyone has differing ideas of how to do stuff like deal with bots, brigading, etc.
Unfortunately I missed out on the QR code thing, but I did manage to snag one of the last shirts! Colbert’s (I think it was Colbert’s letter on the back) writing team really went overboard on weaving memes into his “letter”, but that was totally in line with online culture of the time.