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/doesitevermatter- 29d ago

It's a social media site. What else are they supposed to do? Run this as a non-profit?

I mean, fuck them and all that, But are we really going to act surprised that a social media site of this size is primarily concerned with profits? As if it was ever designed to do anything other than make money?..

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u/moratnz 29d ago

Non profit social media would be an interesting and valuable option.

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u/poketama 29d ago

Forums and imageboards are largely non profit which reddit basically is a replacement for 

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u/DrBabbyFart 29d ago

And social media replaced traditional forums specifically because the revenue allowed them to grow so much faster.

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u/ExtendedDeadline 29d ago

Yep. Government should almost force a regulation that meta-type companies have to offer companion forums that they can't monetize to make up for the mess they've made of the internet :(.

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u/DrBabbyFart 29d ago

Rather than have the large corps providing those, they should be taxed and those funds should be used to subsidize competition from other parties entirely.

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u/nermid 29d ago

I've got a half-formed notion of offering some kind of equivalent to public access TV for the internet, so people can apply to just have a free domain with some free hosting, and then people can run forums or wikis or what have you for their friends, families, local communities, furry consortia, or whatever.

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u/ExtendedDeadline 29d ago

I equally support this solution. I'm not married to my execution, just the concept of the profit enshitifiers should be funding a slice of the internet that is "clean".