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Best explanation I've seen so far of why platforms like Reddit tend to get crappy after a certain amount of time.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This long, well-written rant talks a lot about how we end up in this situation. It really resonated for me. The more we have people trying to extract maximum shareholder value on the backs of all of us, the more inevitable the death of any centralized social media platform becomes.

Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wonderful piece of writing that takes the internet as a place for human connection so seriously; I almost teared up at the end. Thanks for sharing it with us!