I have blocked most of the meme communities and all seems just fine to me now.
Just out of curiosity - no judging, but why do you go to work when feeling ill?
Block the memes and things looks better :)
The issue with that logic, voting with your money, which I once used as well, is that richer people get more of a vote than poor people. And as a bunch of the issues with global warming didn't really hit rich people, we shouldn't depend on them to fix it.
The problem is that the people that have done it for years has a bunch of experience a new team doesn't have. It will most likely take years for the subreddit to run as well as it has been.
You'd be surprised at how many things you do today that has been illegal or will be illegal in the future. The last part is the real scary one.
16:00 CET, 10:00 EST, 07:00 PST for us people that prefer absolute times ;)
Over time they will probably merge, either explicitly or simple because one of them gains more traction than the others.
And if you like to compete with yourself, dish golfing. It's cheap(at least it can be), and it's basically competitive hiking :)