What the web is going through right now is "platform collapse": the giants of the web 2.0 era gradually failing as they scramble to cut costs and raise revenues.

I don't think it's a coincidence that this comes at the same time as interest rates are rising. For 15 years, most of the life of these platforms, they built themselves into giants by burning easy cash – but now the taps have been turned off.

@tomw Reddit is still struggling to become profitable despite a decade of being one of the most visited sites on the web. It seems easy cash allowed them to postpone building a real business for too long, and now they’re panicking.