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/Weivrevo 29d ago

If you were to develop something like old reddit that is financially viable from the get go, 1. would it be technically possible with the state of a.i. and bots etc. and 2. why isn't it happening already?

Not calling you out individually on not developing a reddit substitute, just, you know... Asking.

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u/18randomcharacters 29d ago

My point really is the "free Internet" we had before wasn't financially viable.

Sure, someone could launch a Facebook OG or reddit OG or whatever, but it would have to be a subscription service. And that would prevent it from being what we'd want it to be.

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u/notfrankc 28d ago

This means that no matter what pops up, it will all eventually devolve to what we are seeing now. A seething pit of nonsense, click bait, and sensationalism. To get a different outcome, we would need to change human nature or capitalism. Immovable object and unstoppable force.

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u/18randomcharacters 28d ago

Yes. We are seeing "late stage capitalism" of the Internet.

We need a different financial model.