“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

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    1 year ago

    For Reddit, it is not even specific people. It is people interested in a topic. So easy to go elsewhere.