Yesterday I read the excellent article by Cory Doctorow: Let the Platforms Burn and this particular anecdote The thing is, network effects are a double-edged sword. People join a service to be with the people they care about. But when the people they care about start to leave, everyone rushes for th...
TIL, the formatting on Wordpress is horrible for mobile. Nice post though.
I guess I'm just disappointed that Spez and co. are pulling a Weekend at Bernie's to cash out before letting Reddit die. The naked greed that they're probably going to get away with just makes my head spin.
@coolcat1711@[email protected] I hope it won't work out for them as they expect. Investors are not (always) stupid and there's plenty of bad news about the impact of this decision.
I was on Reddit for more than ten years and spent a lot of time there. I was really sad when Reddit sync closed down but i haven't been back to Reddit since. They made their bed, they can lie in it.
Nice post, good read, thanks for sharing. I look forward to the day where there are "share with" icons for lemme/kbin at the bottom of wordpress articles 😜
This is the first article I've read where they've referred to the fediverse as the "Threadiverse". Seems to imply Threads is a central part to the fediverse.