Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it’s not good
When looking at the recent history of many popular and highly successful online sites, there tends to be a certain trend they’re all following: rampant corporate greed butting heads with its original core mission and its user base, all of which eventually leads to major issues for the site.
Several sites in question — Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr — all share that same fate, despite having very different purposes and suffering through a dissimilar series of events that led to their downfall or tipping point. And, they’re proof that most businesses will eventually hit a point in which management will decide to push profit margins and use bizarre and brutal methods to squeeze money out of it. The horrors of capitalism.
@kjr google used to have 'dont be evil' as part of their mission statement
It's been removed because of course it has
#reddit#spez is just following the proud tradition of platforms being subservient to capitalism and it's neverending growth model. Aaron Schwartz died to make information freely available to all, spez is the polar opposite
"Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it’s not good"
The common point that I've not seen mentioned let alone discussed is that this is exactly what anyone should expect from parasitic, extractive, late-stage capitalism
Parasitic, extractive, late-stage capitalism exists for one purpose only:
extract capital (wealth, money, choose your favorite label) and direct it upward, only upward, to those who are increasingly wealthy themselves
@kjr YouTube has been changing lately. I started watching "reaction" videos during the deepest pandemic days. They seem to be shutting them down over copyright, even if it gets cleared they get trouble again over the same post. Leaving for other sites or shutting down. Nothing huge, but I've noticed it. And then...
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