Tear Time 2.0

there are a lot of things about reddit

you won’t see or understand without being there

i’m going to help you understand, by making you cry

maybe this seems trite

but it brought me to tears this morning

a grieving teenager in Iran

sharing a commemoration for his friend and clan leader

…

that kid receives a notification every time someone comments on his post

can you imagine how much joy each ding brings?

to know that someone else in the world is grieving with him

even if its just for a moment

…

it’s more than that

Mr. Tinker is a little bit immortal now

~500,000 people1 will see that post by the end of today

500,000 people will know that Mr. Tinker meant so much to u/AxOlOtLTwaT

that Axo tried to share his passing with the world

to make sure the world knows who it lost

..

and Axo succeeded

…

i guess my meditation here is about community on the Internet

about a world-wide community incrementally sitting shiva with a boy in Iran

and about the permanence of the internet

headstones erode and break

servers are forever2