I think that is an business choice and one more item that I have to disagree and live with.
You are right, but it’s a pretty piss poor (read: short sighted) business decsicion. It’s straight out of the enshitification playbook. But these businesses seem to forgot (or just don’t care?) about the last step: the platform dies.
The critical error is that clawing back services for users (“you are the product, not the client”) is wholly unsustainable, because users will just leave, at least in a perfectly free market.
To Reddit Inc., you are nothing more than cattle to be packaged to the highest bidder. You have no say in how you get to experience the platform, other than the bare minimum to keep you engaged. But when times are tough, as they are in the tech world now, you are the most expendable asset.
You are right, but it’s a pretty piss poor (read: short sighted) business decsicion. It’s straight out of the enshitification playbook. But these businesses seem to forgot (or just don’t care?) about the last step: the platform dies.
The critical error is that clawing back services for users (“you are the product, not the client”) is wholly unsustainable, because users will just leave, at least in a perfectly free market.
To Reddit Inc., you are nothing more than cattle to be packaged to the highest bidder. You have no say in how you get to experience the platform, other than the bare minimum to keep you engaged. But when times are tough, as they are in the tech world now, you are the most expendable asset.