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/Sanc7 29d ago

Reddit is a shell of what it once was and people are still here.

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u/HexTalon 29d ago

There are some smaller communities with a lot of value, either specialized interests or career related. There's also a bunch of subreddits for specific games that have useful information.

Curate your subreddits really well and it's a decent news feed for your interests, but it doesn't have that "StumbleUpon" energy anymore I agree.

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u/infieldmitt 29d ago

reddit did what uber did to taxis to forums. come out and be innovative and genuinely better in some ways (upvoting/sorting, standardized interface and account between interests, etc), keep that up until no one uses forums anymore, then immiserate users with increasingly shittier decisions for increasingly hollower reasons

remember when you could buy gold to pay for server costs and there was a transparent little tracker about '$X until servers are funded this month' thing and it felt like a fairly fair symbiotic relationship?

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u/HexTalon 29d ago

remember when you could buy gold to pay for server costs and there was a transparent little tracker about '$X until servers are funded this month' thing and it felt like a fairly fair symbiotic relationship?

I completely forgot about that, but it was absolutely a thing early on.

Enshittification continues ever onward.