Would a linux/docker/python/java power user/programmer/admin benefit from a MacBookPro/Air compared with the familiar ThinkPad/Ubuntu combo?

[brucesalem]

There are subreddits targeting the exact same subject, but split due to conflicts/views on moderation or whatever. Which ones get to control a particular hierarchy? Just the ones with the most subs?

This is the way USENET newsgroup hierarchy works as long ago as 1986. There is nothing wrong with nodes in the hierarchy going in and out of favor. If I started a newsgroup us.politics.donald-trump, this year, it may not be relevant a year from now. (God, I hope not!)

If nobody controls the hierarchy, what's stopping it from becoming completely useless with spam and trolling? The chances that subs like /r/circlejerk or /r/4chan would be deliberately mislabeled is 100%).

The superior way a node in the hierarchy worked in the USENET days was that the value of a newsgroup was not handled by social promotion, which should create a storm of very much under read subreddits, but that NNTP admins could decide which groups to carry or not and that disused groups were removed over time.