When thousands of subreddits went dark in protest, it exposed the tension at the core of Reddit. Is the web’s most reliably human forum a gold mine for investors, or an old-fashioned dumpster fire?
  • Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    Reddit didn’t survive its slow death many years ago. The rotting corpse it left behind is just becoming a bigger problem.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      5·
      4 months ago

      Yep!

      But maybe an injection of speculative casual short term investors is exactly what it needs to get back on it’s feet. /s

      • Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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        4 months ago

        This is funny but also an excellent example. There are people who honestly believe that, and those pretending to believe that because it’s to their advantage that others be made to believe it. They are all humans behaving as humans in the context of the system they are in. Despite having the same tendencies, if these same people were living in a system that leveraged their personalities and talents to pro-social purposes we would have a very different world. The part we haven’t figured out yet is how exactly that system would work and also work despite millions to billions of different people interacting with it in more ways that can be comprehended by any individual. This is quite a group project we’re working on.

        Edit: Whoops, I thought I was responding to someone in this thread. Interesting how much it connects here.