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People will leave Reddit as much as they have left Twitter, i.e. not much. The main problem is in the fact that lots of Reddit users seem to think that Reddit i
by low_tech_love 3y ago
People will leave Reddit as much as they have left Twitter, i.e. not much. The main problem is in the fact that lots of Reddit users seem to think that Reddit is some kind of “community” that “depends” on its users, when the truth is that Reddit is a company and the dependence relationship is the other way around. It’s hard to accept but Reddit is a dysfunctional colossus that is simply not feasible to replicate at this point, and as such the management can pretty much do as they please.
- Eisenstein 3y ago> It’s hard to accept but Reddit is a dysfunctional colossus that is simply not feasible to replicate at this point, and as such the management can pretty much do as they please. History proves otherwise. Colossuses have fallen. You can't rely on size to guarantee impunity for shitty actions.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoHistory has been short on the internet. I don't think one or two examples proves much of anything.
- Eisenstein 3y agoIt absolutely proves something: that you can't rely on size to grant you impunity for shitty actions -- like I said.
- BoxOfRain 3y agoI still think Huffman’s decisions might yet end up a cautionary tale. Even if he brings in strikebreakers to moderate the closed subreddits the site will face a tidal wave of spam which isn’t going to make the causal users happy.
- vGPU 3y agoTumblr found otherwise. So did digg. So did many other media titans of years past.