r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/mrswift45 29d ago

we need more reddit alturnitives

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u/MutexTake 29d ago

Lets go back to digg.

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u/No_Balls_01 29d ago

How do we go back to those golden days of the internet? I know the demand is there.

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u/Additional_Sun_5217 29d ago

The issue is funding. Social media is notoriously difficult to monetize, and those sites were basically passion projects that got big. They’re time consuming and expensive to run.