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  • SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Worse, I don’t think it’s desperation. I think the senior leadership genuinely sees this as a good idea. That implies they view reddit no longer as a series of communities that organically develop and more as a social network that should pursue reach and “quality” content.

    To me, that’s way worse than desperation. That’s like the exact opposite of what reddit was stated to be when I first joined.

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      1 year ago

      That’s like the exact opposite of what reddit was stated to be when I first joined.

      It is exactly the opposite of what Aaron Swartz created.

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      1 year ago

      It is a good idea from the point of view that a lot of platforms are compensating their content creators for their work to keep them on the platform.

      It is a bad idea because most power users used third party apps to help provide their content, and Reddit just pissed a lot of them off.