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).

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    2 years ago

    I can’t wait to see how it actually shakes out. I’m worried about the number of people I’ve seen who just say screw it im not leaving Reddit and just give in to using the 1st party app.