Reddit has become more relevant over time — and its users have become more possessive.
  • forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    I think it’s intentional. The original user base of technologically inclined geeks weren’t profitable. They’ve been pivoting to the social media crowd. This user base isn’t so ideological. They just want a time waste scrolling app on their phone.

    The original founders are long gone. Ohannian seems to mentally checked out ages ago. Swartz died a decade ago. Huffman is just cashing checks at this point.

  • redditors_re_racist@lemmy.ml
    41·
    2 years ago

    reddit was always a piece of shit that benefitted from the death of traditional forums and the gradual enclosure of the internet

    • bec@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Between Reddit and Discord I don’t know who did more damage. Forums were neat, especially because knowledge on it was permanent

      • Debs@lemmy.mlOP
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yeah. I worry about how many things are moving into Discord. They are giving so much away for free right now that it stifling competition. Eventually they will need to turn a profit and, with competition reduced, they can get real shitty with it.

      • Im Büro@feddit.de
        1·
        2 years ago

        knowledge on it was permanent

        Unless someone linked to something.
        I have often found old forum posts related to some problem I have only to find the link to the suggested solution broken.

        • bec@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 years ago

          True, but at least you could try to waybackmachine it, while discord is very often gated behind registration + phone verification and is not as easy to find the info you need