When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  • coupland@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    It boggles my mind that I read this sentence near the end of the article:

    “Force everyone to interact on one app, and it’s easier to fill their feeds with whatever advertising you want.”

    This isn’t a quote from an expert, these are the actual words of the author of the article. “fill their needs… with advertising.”

    Nobody has “advertising needs.” It shows how fucked-up the internet has become when a journalist writes something like this unironically, without even attempting to explain themselves. They just assume everyone believes they have advertising needs. Unreal.