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Seriously, what's up with big sites literally dying as we speak? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First all the bs with Twitter and Elon, then Reddit having an exodus to Lemmy (not complaining lol), then Twitch. Are we like, in an alternate self healing dimension or something?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I have a sinking feeling that these moves are not about money, but more about power and manipulation. If you squeeze these user bases such that the savviest users are forced out, those more likely to ask "Why?" about damn near anything, you will own access to a group of people that can be influenced to think/do/buy whatever the top management and/or majority shareholders want. If you lose a few million users, what does it matter if they were dissidents to your goals?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not money per se, but the oil of the 21st century: data.

I guarantee it's primarily about improving their ability to harvest and sell user data.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Exactly. The native apps can gather so much more info than a website and they have to kill third party apps to force people to use the official client.

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