Reddit had an “exodus” last year (or was it two years ago?) and is still going as strong as ever.
The users are the product, and they banked on having enough newer, more impressionable users to make up for the ones they would lose. It was a good gamble that binned many ‘savvy’ users that cut into their bottom line with adblockers and 3rd party apps.
Dollars to doughnuts that all the content that was ‘publicly’ lost was actually retained and continues to be a free resoruce for them. Very Land O’Lakes. Kept the land (content). Got rid of the Indian (users).
Now they have a bunch of oblivious users happily, or at least tolerably, being harvested and fed slop by their dogshit app. Based on that, I think this ‘AI’ thing of theirs going to do well for them.
The users are the product, and they banked on having enough newer, more impressionable users to make up for the ones they would lose. It was a good gamble that binned many ‘savvy’ users that cut into their bottom line with adblockers and 3rd party apps.
Dollars to doughnuts that all the content that was ‘publicly’ lost was actually retained and continues to be a free resoruce for them. Very Land O’Lakes. Kept the land (content). Got rid of the Indian (users).
Now they have a bunch of oblivious users happily, or at least tolerably, being harvested and fed slop by their dogshit app. Based on that, I think this ‘AI’ thing of theirs going to do well for them.