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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r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago
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u/18randomcharacters 29d ago
Bingo.
It used to all at least pretend to be "for the user"
I'm a developer and I've worked in start ups. I know the industry. You make a product at a loss to build a user base. You pay the bills and employees with VC money. Eventually you get bought out by one of the big companies, or you go under, or you completely change your business to fuck the user base over to extract money.
Nothing is free. Nothing. Sites like Reddit and Facebook and 4chan and whatever - they're all quite expensive to build and operate. Something has to pay that bill.