Given how Reddit has responded to the whole API, community-mods, etc. fiasco, I felt like they’re doing some of the more effective things in not only destroying their communities but also their IPO valuation.
Everytime I feel they can’t make it worse, they just double down.
Out of pure curiosity, what do you think could be the next steps Reddit could take to make their future even more worse in the most effective ways possible? 😄
Publicly announce that Reddit is now collaborating with Tencent to match usernames with people’s real identities so they can sell that data to background checking companies, law enforcement, Facebook, and the Chinese government, specifically.
Because… How else are they going to make money from NSFW communities if they’re not going to sell ads in those spaces‽ Blackmailers will pay good money for that data!
Then they won’t protect the data very well so it will get hacked (or just stolen by rogue employees) and sold on the dark web. That headline would be fun.
Remember folks: To ensure no one can blackmail you with data taken from Reddit make sure to poison it by having a script login as you and visit all sorts of NSFW communities 👍
So when someone comes to you in the future saying they have data showing you visited <whatever> subreddit you can say, “my account visited more than that! You got ripped off!” 😁