From the article:
And this bumps up against another part of Cory’s enshittifcation concept: it only works when switching costs are high. Social media can make that work. But I’m not so sure that Reddit has the sheer gravitational pull that social media has. Yes, there are social media-like communities on various subreddits. But, on the whole, the communities are built around topics, and it’s kind of easy to just move elsewhere (again, fediverse options Lemmy and Kbin are already looking pretty nice for that).
Techdirt goes way back and has always had a “rough around the edges” feel that made it feel more grounded and realistic than a lot of tech news reporting. Probably because they’re not unwilling to show their bias and call out bullshit. Probably also because they tend to actually know wtf they’re talking about.