YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?

  • Fluid@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Greedy capitalists believe line must always go up. They will sacrifice every moral principle to their invisible hand god.

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          1 year ago

          Oh my God are you ever speaking my language here.

          I dunno, maybe 439 million dollars of revenue reported by reddit in 2021 is, I dunno, lots?

          • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev
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            1 year ago

            If they don’t have a sustainable business model, they don’t have to operate at a loss for years either. Maybe it’s better to let reddit die and transfer to a model that makes more sense. I think that smaller instances with users and moderators voluntarily paying server costs like in the fediverse seems like a much better solution than companies trying to gain a monopolistic position so that they can then ruin their product in order to make money off of it.

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          Many of those platforms weren’t making a profit or only were once they started the enshittification process