There are far, far worse industries for exploitation.
The meatpacking industry fast food, and garment industries are an entirely different level of hell than any of those companies. Weird how we don’t see nearly the amount of pushback against fast food and fast fashion.
Which is hilarious considering they are in the opposite situation. Reddit is trying to IPO. Twitter was made private. Two different companies in very stages of their existence. Which shows what a ridiculous observation this was by Huffman.
You invest when you want to go public and grow. Twitter is a far more mature company with a much larger number of employees.
I see the children have migrated from Reddit.
Neither are publicly traded…
Yeah, it’s only the rich that are standing in the way of us all doing brilliant things. Or doing anything productive or interesting.
I don’t think anything is necessarily wrong with fragmentation. What is wrong with smaller communities?
One problem with Reddit was that larger communities resulted in the lowest common denominator replies. And that dynamic got worse over time, to the point where real people began to sound like repetitive bots or meme-posting bots. Nothing wrong if you like that kind of community but it is nice to also have ones that are much better curated.
I particularly enjoyed the subs where I didn’t dare post because I was obviously the most ignorant person there and most of the replies were informed and intelligent. r/Technology was the exact opposite of that.