Certainly incentivising users to create the most attention-grabby content for money won’t possibly lead to a lowest-common-denominator-fueled breakdown of what historically made the platform useful. Nahhh. No way.
It does make me want to jump back in to do it though. I don’t care if I become the next hated internet moron, they make bank
Yeah I wouldn’t count on Reddit to run this in a competent way that will actually make anyone a decent amount of money.
The reason the stick is so long is so you can’t actually get to the carrot. You just need to think you can.
Imagine thinking you’re going to muscle in on the turf of people like Gallowboob.
You won’t be making shit, brother, not without an insane amount of luck.
I am upvoting you for being an honest money-grubber.
So desperate for profitability
Lesson: loss leader web platform shit is only good when it’s losing money. And when interest rates are going up, they can’t afford to lose money.
Both X and Reddit have lost my interest. I really liked Reddit but X was and is for people that like to be told what to think.
For me, twitter was always about community engagement. It’s where I got updates from my city’s legislators, reporters, businesses, etc. It’s the best news hub. And it was the best platform for communicating with others who share my hobbies and professional interests. Not to mention the real IRL friends I had made through out the years. So, it’s not just a dumpster fire of misinformation and racism and sexism.
It was and was treated as community engagement. Hell, Twitter is where I learned that my daughter’s school was closed for bad weather days.
Reddit has always been much better at building community than twitter. Twitter has always been about getting somebody voice propagated. To a huge extent the louder and more belligerent you are twitter will help amplify your message because it’s in twitters financial interest. It’s not even remotely like a public square that it loves to compare itself with.
Hold on now, I didn’t say anything about “building” a community. My point was about the ability to engage with an existing community. Ya know… like a town square.
I’m not disagreeing with what you’re saying but from my experience (beginning back before there was even a Twitter app), I did not have exposure to the cesspool so many complain about. Again, for me, it was about getting updates and engaging with people and organizations in my real life local and extended community. So, when the subway is delayed, a road is closed, there’s looting happenig a zip code away, when a council person is running for office or trying to pass legislation, etc., Twitter was the best place to go to get that information. Now, the best I’ve got is my local newspaper, a handful of bot accounts on Mastodon, and RSS feeds.
Granted, I never used the official Twitter app so I was always free from the algorithm and advertising. RIP Tweetbot.
Yeah I got you. I guess I agree with you. For something current and local Twitter was your best bet. I just think it’s much more about consumption than getting anybody’s voice heard. This is especially true of X. The platform is there mainly for people with an existing large audience to get their message amplified. It’s not there to get the smartest or most interesting voices heard.
I thought twitter was for furry artists and memes.
**Tumblr
Well that too. I never used Twitter myself, but my roomie does. He’s all buddy with a bunch of artists that used Twitter to promote themselves and find work. The stuff Musk has done has kind of screwed them over in that regard.
Ad blocker is still working perfectly… 100% personalized. (None 😇)
What’s reddit?
I think it’s that Lemmy clone people are talking about
It’s actually a Kbin clone
Boost stock price, fuck users.
You will accept the personalized ads and like it.
