I absolutely do not trust Chrome or the google team. It does not make me feel any better the only barrier to them trying to ruin a internet a bit is some backlash.
It's interesting how these "critical cuts" we need to make to the budget always come out of the enforcement agencies keeping track of the companies bribing them with campaign money.
Not terribly surprised, new platform that's still teething. I've said it before but we will go through multiple growth and contraction waves if we all care to stick around long enough.
Personally I'm liking the smaller community so far. Definitely could use some growth, but more people comes with a lot of problems reddit has.