Reddit has no intrinsic value. The value comes from the community and mod teams. It was only a matter of time. Reddit found the hill it was willing to die on.
You’re not alone in observing this. Cory Doctorow wrote a great piece about this phenomenon: Tiktok’s Enshittification. It seems to be the fate of any centralized social media platform.
So tired of being advertised to. The hilarious / depressing thing is that these companies make a few dollars per user per quarter, so basically our privacy is sold for $5. Id rather just donate that to a lemmy instance.
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A subreddit community for sharing those miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar.
Reddit has no intrinsic value. The value comes from the community and mod teams. It was only a matter of time. Reddit found the hill it was willing to die on.
You’re not alone in observing this. Cory Doctorow wrote a great piece about this phenomenon: Tiktok’s Enshittification. It seems to be the fate of any centralized social media platform.
So tired of being advertised to. The hilarious / depressing thing is that these companies make a few dollars per user per quarter, so basically our privacy is sold for $5. Id rather just donate that to a lemmy instance.