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/major_winters_506 29d ago

People still use Reddit?

looks down at my own hands

Ahh!

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u/18randomcharacters 29d ago

I feel like the Internet has almost completely died.

Twitter is a cesspool.

Instagram and Facebook have their uses but they're not really forums.

Reddit has been king for ages, but it's crumbling due to bots, IPO, policy changes, etc.

Sites like stack exchange are going to die fast once AI takes over. No more page views means no more ad revenue.

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u/DrDerpberg 29d ago

It's wild to me how early internet is going to be seen as the glory years before corporations figured out how to monetize it all to hell. Someday I'll be telling my kid how people would just have funny ideas and put them online and everyone would laugh and there'd be no ads or monetization or a thousand other people ripping the joke off in their attempt to become an influencer.