Crack on Reddit I’m Done Anyways.
I was mainly a lurker on reddit with only occasional posting. But I’m done with it anyway now. Always felt a little uneasy as it was like the last social media ‘product’ i consumed after purging all other mainstream ones.
This latest drama has just shown the company management of a single website is making changes in view of its own profits. I thought i was a user but maybe I’m a customer. But have no interest in that. I’m free now.
Think I’ll float about the fediverse for a while. This is 1st post so might not actually work ha
Posted similar elsewhere: With Facebook and Twitter, they built frameworks that users filled with content that the corps then loaded with ads and sold the data points but they fucked up because they didn’t fully grasp that they were content moderation businesses (especially after they all fought hard not to be labelled ‘publishers’).
Reddit had users creating & posting (links to) free content as well as carrying out the moderation and growing those communities for free, yet still couldn’t turn a profit.
Yeah were in the best position of all the big social media companies really and have spectacularly underperformed compared to the rest. Then display company policy management by hand grenade. Poor attempt