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but you still have to register for reddit... reddit's owned by conde nast, it's not an open platform. Conde nast could at a moment's notice shut the entire thin
by user24 15y ago
but you still have to register for reddit... reddit's owned by conde nast, it's not an open platform. Conde nast could at a moment's notice shut the entire thing down, or put it behind a paywall, or sell your 'likes' to an advertiser. This is a problem common to all centralised solutions.
- 101001010111 15y agoThis is the type of thinking that will hasten Facebook's demise. And it's a perfectly reasonable line of thought. The next time you hear the phrase "It doesn't scale" in reference to something, ask yourself why it needs to. In some cases it might not. Centralised approaches (e.g. websites on the open internet) obviously need to scale. Facebook is a public website. And it's on the open internet, for anyone with an account to see and ready to be hacked by those with skill who do not need accounts. I always come back to this: How many people do you really need to be reading your profile? Friends, coworkers, family, ... potentially anyone, anywhere in the world with a computer and an internet connection? It just does not make sense.
- icebraining 15y agoNitpick: Reddit is no longer owner by Condé Nast, they are now a subsidiary of the parent company, Advance Publications.
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- vidarh 15y agoNo, you don't have to register. You have to register to post. As for shutting it down: The code is open source, so while it'd be hard to unite around a common replacement, if they tried to shut it down it would not be the end.