I was really puzzled by that. Like, obviously you can fix stuff like this by moving to a new platform. It’s a natural part of the internet. Reddit only started being used because of a mass exodus from Digg. Discord killed Skype and Teamspeak and Ventrilo and Mumble and Curse Voice because people moved from those things because Discord was better. As an aside, I can’t fucking wait till the next thing kills Discord because Discord suuuucks
It’s only natural that as Reddit enshittifies further and further, we’ll move on to the next thing. Until it gets really big and enshittified and on and on we go. The internet is a graveyard. You can keep standing on old graves or you can come help us dig the new ones. There’s no third choice.
its only natural that as Reddit enshittifies further and further, we’ll move on to the next thing
I mean, I’d argue it isn’t natural for platforms to intentionally be made worse for users. Historically people would shift platforms when a new platform offered newer/better features or to check out the new hotness and older platforms would simply be neglected. See Tumblr and Myspace for example. Both saw negative user growth long before they could meaningfully enshittify to try to extract revenue
But honestly this is an argument of symantics and I’m only posting it as a reminder that platforms don’t have to enshittify and we could build a society where that doesn’t happen. Heck we’re already on a solid first step by being here in the fediverse!
I was really puzzled by that. Like, obviously you can fix stuff like this by moving to a new platform. It’s a natural part of the internet. Reddit only started being used because of a mass exodus from Digg. Discord killed Skype and Teamspeak and Ventrilo and Mumble and Curse Voice because people moved from those things because Discord was better. As an aside, I can’t fucking wait till the next thing kills Discord because Discord suuuucks
It’s only natural that as Reddit enshittifies further and further, we’ll move on to the next thing. Until it gets really big and enshittified and on and on we go. The internet is a graveyard. You can keep standing on old graves or you can come help us dig the new ones. There’s no third choice.
I mean, I’d argue it isn’t natural for platforms to intentionally be made worse for users. Historically people would shift platforms when a new platform offered newer/better features or to check out the new hotness and older platforms would simply be neglected. See Tumblr and Myspace for example. Both saw negative user growth long before they could meaningfully enshittify to try to extract revenue
But honestly this is an argument of symantics and I’m only posting it as a reminder that platforms don’t have to enshittify and we could build a society where that doesn’t happen. Heck we’re already on a solid first step by being here in the fediverse!