I just said this yesterday or two days ago when they announced they were going to start paying people for content, but it truly is amazing how Reddit can find another significant thing that will hurt them as a business and move forward with it.

It seems like they’d run out of things that could significantly hurt their business, they just keep finding something else.

Soon they’re going to be down to basic features, And they’ll be like hey look so hyperlinks don’t work anymore. And then that’ll be the end of the press release.

Their “business decisions” are insane right now.

It’s very difficult to see this procession of self-mutilation technologically in another light other than deliberate corporate suicide. Like is someone going to benefit if Reddit goes bankrupt? Is that what’s happening?

It’s all going to plan. A wealthy investor has paid a lot of money to shut down popular platforms like Reddit and Twitter. Knowledge is power and they can afford to, and have the incentive to keep us in the dark. Can’t have us poors rising up against inequality if we have no soapbox to stand on.

This has been my thought for a while, since before Musk even finalized the purchase of Twitter. They mentioned wealthy foreign investors backing him near the end of the deliberations, and it immediately clued me in. The working class, or the populous at large, have been using social media to unite and protest for years. Look at Iran and the anti-hijab movement. Look at BLM and how it exploded a few years ago. The ruling class are dumbing down education across the board, and limiting what we can even read from libraries. Disrupting our ability to communicate, share and coordinate is just another step. Why is Musk shooting himself in the foot? What business decision makes sense to gut every aspect of Twitter and then prevent outside viewers from seeing tweets? He’s killing it. And Reddit’s doing the same.

What was Twitter? An extremely popular and multicultural, border breaking venue for communication? What was Reddit but a (by and large) progressive and intellectual community sharing ideas that mattered? (On top of feel good stories or something to get your rocks off to.) Then look at Threads, where they explicitly stated they’re going to avoid politics and news? Not letting those topics be part of the discourse. It’s obvious.

Places like this are shrinking and are absolutely under attack.