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> YC has a lot to answer for in the damage it's wreaked over the years. What damage is that? (excluding the present case)
by senko 7mo ago
> YC has a lot to answer for in the damage it's wreaked over the years.
What damage is that? (excluding the present case)
- officialchicken 7mo ago> What damage is that? (excluding the present case) That seems to be an introspective question.
- 1attice 7mo agoExtrospection is valid spection
- barry-cotter 7mo agoThey’re responsible for the existence of scribd. Not aware of any other obviously socially net negative companies.
- transcriptase 7mo agoFor the uninformed what’s the deal with scribd?
- tim333 7mo agoScribd are quite annoying. The pitch was "the YouTube for documents" allowing stuff to be posted and shared but they tend to try and get subscription money off you to see anything unlike the likes of YouTube.
- CamperBob2 7mo agoScribd scrapes the web of all the .PDFs that it can find, then gates them behind a paywall and SEOs their way to the top of Google's rankings. That's it, that's all they do. They run a zero value tollbooth with other peoples' IP, taking advantage of users who don't have the search-fu to hunt down the documents themselves. They should pretty much die in a grease fire.
- energy123 7mo agoReddit
- Zak 7mo agoI think when making the claim a company is a net negative, it's necessary to explore what would have happened if the company hadn't been founded. I find it unlikely, for example that there would not be a dominant centralized forum platform. People would have certainly started problematic communities on the dominant platform, and it's unlikely a platform with strict moderation would have gained dominance before 2015 or so. I do think a dominant player would have been established by 2015. Do you think whatever you see as harmful about Reddit would not have occurred if the company didn't exist?
- energy123 7mo agoIt would have happened more slowly at least, delaying the increase in populism, nihilism and depression in the Western world, the anglosphere in particular.
- toyg 7mo agoThat's mostly imputable to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Reddit is a footnote in the mainstream, which is dominated by those 3.
- energy123 7mo agoGiven the number of Reddit users across the Anglosphere, I disagree that Reddit is not a major contributor.
- Zak 7mo agoWhat traits specific to Reddit as opposed to a hypothetical generic alternative forum platform do you think are major contributors to those social trends?
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- monsieurbanana 7mo agoAirbnb
- roysting 7mo agoFlock
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- user_7832 7mo agoHow about the privacy darling Flock?