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The original techy userbase left when reddit accepted massive amounts of venture capital and had to make a profit in early to mid 2010s. It's been inertia ever
by superkuh 4y ago
The original techy userbase left when reddit accepted massive amounts of venture capital and had to make a profit in early to mid 2010s. It's been inertia ever since. They've been trying very hard to gentrify and make reddit as appealing as possible to all the people that wanted to leave Facebook but still wanted a facebook-alike. And reddit provided that with a heavy shift to user-profile based posting and integration of commercial ad accounts as users.
So now they're left with effectively Facebook users but without all the real names and private information to sell so of course that doesn't work. There's no way 1.3 billion USD in venture capital is getting a return without it continuing to be run into the ground.
- cvccvroomvroom 4y agoYep. Most Reddit users are now mainstream average people which unfortunately leads to average signal interactions. This happens to almost every platform when those late to the party tend to push away the cool kids. The only high signal communities are perpetually the next ones that haven't become too popular yet. I posit that invite-only via vouching, subscription fees, not run by a corporation, real names+faces profiles, and policed just enough to defend decorum is one of the only ways to build a useful, enduring community that's not a fad.