Filth wizard and Internet bellend.
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For example, I spent years on Reddit happily arguing with wrong people, deriving my "value" from just having fun interacting with folks about stuff. The server resources that Reddit expended supporting that were fairly trivial in dollar terms. [...] Instead Reddit hired 2000 staff for some reason
They hired 2000 staff because they were running one of the most highly-trafficked websites on the Internet, with hundreds of millions of users, something which unsurprisingly takes quite a lot of people to administer. Were Reddit to not invest in people and resources to keep the website running at that scale, you would not be able to use it in the way you enjoy and it would have nowhere near as much utility to you.
This is the entire point of the article that you missed - there are a shit-ton of costs in running a massive community that have to come from somewhere. Your approach is "well I don't think those costs are necessary". But they are.
You really couldn't be more wrong.
You don't have to be a Randroid or a libertarian, or even right wing, to understand that a discourse predicated on everyone getting everything for free with no real trade-off doesn't really make sense in the real world.
The enshittification of “enshittification”
https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/08/08/the-enshittification-of-enshittification/
The enshittification of “enshittification”
https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/08/08/the-enshittification-of-enshittification/
For context, Instagram has two BILLION users. Facebook has just shy of three billion.
Mastodon has a total of ten million.
The fediverse is a privacy nightmare
ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse (including Mastodon – same caveats as the first two times, will be used interchangeably, deal with it) is not private. It is not even semi-private. It is a completely public medium and absolutely nothing posted on it, including direct messages, can be seen as even remotely... #fediverse
https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/07/04/the-fediverse-is-a-privacy-nightmare/
It gives my partner absolutely banging migraines in more than tiny quantities. I find it gives me huge cravings for junk food about an hour or two after drinking it.
I'd be happy if it disappeared.