• Jeff@social.rights.ninja
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    1 year ago

    @dylan

    It’s definitely a shame that reddit is making these changes. The fall of reddit is going to have pretty negative affect for a lot of people.

    I’m no fan of corpo platforms—I’d love more widespread adoption of open protocols and software—but I don’t want _users_ to get hurt by the loss.

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      1 year ago

      The decline of Reddit is a great shame. But the model of social media companies needing to IPO and make profit always hurts users in the long run. When Reddit do IPO more decisions will be made that make the experience worse for users simply because the interests of the platform owners will no longer be aligned with the interests of the users. We can’t know how things will work out but at least the fediverse model is new and is theoretically more sustainable.