Gregory's Server@atomicpoet In a way, it sounds like Reddit changed from Mastodon into Twitter. It’s just another Big Social company now. Wait until they go public as a company and have to answer to shareholders. I have a feeling it’s going to get ugly there.
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@atomicpoet Fair points. It wasn’t a great analogy. In some ways Reddit has improved over the years. As you noted earlier they have strong mod tools. They’ve gotten rid of some truly vile subreddits. But at the end of the day, as a profit oriented company, Redditors are the product. Reddit’s increasing its reliance on ads. And I feel that it will only get worse after the inevitable IPO. |
@Sanlear I don't think a comparison of Twitter with Mastodon works:
1. Reddit has always been for-profit, Mastodon is non-profit
2. Corporations release open source software all the time -- probably most of them
3. Reddit was never de-centralized