hipu 🇺🇦🔓🚇Jun 14, 2023
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Reddit got a lot right in the past, but when a platform turns its back on the community that supports it, it doesn’t end well.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/what-reddit-got-wrong

What Reddit Got Wrong

After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jun 13, 2023 at 9:30pmWeb
Show threadEric NichollsJun 13, 2023
@eff Time to use https://kbin.social
kbin.social - Explore the Fediverse

Explore the Fediverse

Show threadCloakerJun 14, 2023
@LatinCanuck @eff Lemmy or Kbin?
Show threadQazJun 14, 2023
@cloaker @LatinCanuck @eff They federate with each other. People using kbin can interact with Lemmy communities and vice versa so It’s not that important which one you choose.
Show threadCloakerJun 14, 2023
@qazcetelic @LatinCanuck @eff more ya know!
Show threadEric NichollsJun 14, 2023
@eff IMHO kbin is closer to Reddit's experience.
Show threadJ.P. WingJun 13, 2023
@eff This gave me an excellent reason to step away from reddit forever.
Show threadUnitJun 13, 2023
@eff Just another platform beloved by many betraying the very users that put it where it is.
Show threadold_tootbruteJun 14, 2023
@eff crash and burn centralized social media! hurray!
Show threadWesMasonJun 14, 2023

@eff
Our outrage vs. our attention span vs. our addiction

Which will win?

@Jdreben

Show threadrinnakuroJun 14, 2023
@eff Reddit is nearly end.
Show threadSusan. 👩‍💻Jun 14, 2023

@eff it is a private company and can make whatever choices they desire.

However the product is the user’s contributions. And if they drive the users away there will be no product to monetize.

Show threadKatLSJun 15, 2023
@eff maybe monetizing community relationships is not possible without sacrificing the real value of human connection.🧐
Show threadfinn Jun 19, 2023
@eff the article states that, “Reddit got a lot right in the past week,” and then recounts the impact of neglecting their community. I posit they didn’t get anything right at all unless this is an Olympic contest in doubling down.