Yesterday I read the excellent article by Cory Doctorow: Let the Platforms Burn and this particular anecdote The thing is, network effects are a double-edged sword. People join a service to be with the people they care about. But when the people they care about start to leave, everyone rushes for the exits. Here’s danah [...]
  • magnetosphere@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This article kinda makes me hope for reddit to survive. I want all the toxic, angry assholes to stay there, not desperately flee to the fediverse in search of their fix.

  • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, what was unthinkable a few months ago is now an ever growing reality.

    If ever reddit had a crisis management division, the people there didn’t understand what reddit really was.

    Even spez forgot what made reddit special. Or a very big possibility is he never knew it from the beginning at all. It can be argued that reddit was the vision of aaron.

    • esty@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Nevermind crisis management do they not have one sane capable PR person on call??