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).
The Reddit community is the one in charge if the ceo doesn’t like it then we will go somewhere else and build our own community !
With blackjack and hookers!
We have an entire instance dedicated to porn, so we’ve got the hookers part covered. Not sure about the blackjack, though.
I mean, honestly? Yeah. People forget that their widespread support and cooperation is ultimately the source of other people’s power. Your boss might be able to fire you, but they can’t fire everybody.
I was honestly on the fence about just being a passive consumer and going to the Reddit app until I saw the derision and lying out of spez. Then I realized I could no longer support them with my ad revenue and I haven’t been back on Reddit since (except for muscle memory for the app and then I close it immediately).