panoptic

At one point he posted a response that started with “A:” before editing it to drop the A:
which made it clear he was posting canned answers at the very least

Hey, we’ll always have narwals baconing at midnight

No idea - but I actually think the Fediverse concept maps to Reddit way better than it has other social networks so I could see some iteration of this really catching on over time.

For something like Twitter, the whole value proposition is “one big universal conversation” and the federated stuff gets in the way of that a little bit, but Reddit has always been a federation of communities (who occasionally fight, join together, cross post, etc) - that maps really well to this stuff.