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Almost like they’re creating the problem in order to sell the “solution”

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Excellent instance name

Worse/ bigger than just the board, even; with higher interest rates, investors are wanting more returns immediately, not just DAUs or some kind of proxy for future returns.

This is why all tech companies are becoming shittier and more expensive to the end-user (cf. Netflix cracking down on password sharing, Twitter (to some extent Muskrat’s entry there was a cover for him to dump money from Tesla without raising suspicion; itself necessary due to it struggling with the same issues in a high interest environment), Google’s anti-ad blocker attempts).

Right — on Reddit, if you didn’t get to a post within say the first hour or so*, you were going to be banished to a vast wasteland of unseen comments with only one upvote.

Even if you did, well, your comment best be damned clever, funny, or interesting to be interacted with much.

This basically feels like a less lonely Reddit.

Mastodon also has this vibe for me (vs twitter). Basically, the superstar economy effect is less strong.

*or piggyback on an existing top-rated comment (trying to make one’s own relevant to it, or “hijacking” it)

This is the issue with the tech industry as a whole right now. High interest rates mean the DAU jig is up.

Then, to the casual observer, it will look like everything is fine and dandy, furthering the astroturfing propaganda

Startup/ IPO valuations are, nowadays, based on profit per user, rather than daily active users. (Or, at least, skewed much more towards the former).

So, they (comparatively) DGAF if they get rid of 90% of their users if the 10% they do keep click on a shit ton of ads, or buy useless shit, or whatever.

Related: enshittification

maintaining a subreddit for Reddit’s profit ambitions.

Always have been 👩🏽‍🚀🔫👩🏽‍🚀

maintaining a subreddit for Reddit’s profit ambitions.

Always have been 👩🏽‍🚀🔫👩🏽‍🚀

FWIW, in Memmy, the latter is recognized as a URL and clickable, but takes me to a “page not found” page on my home server. The former is not clickable.