45
There's More to the Reddit Meltdown Than Meets the Eye
(attilavago.medium.com)
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Nothing against OP, but man, this is a rough one. This is nothing more than an opinion piece with bad takes.
What a bullshit article. I've highlighted some of it below:
Forums are pretty structured. Twitter and the new reddit are way less structured unless you're talking about structured with ads built in. That aside, that's a personal preference not a fact of the internet.
if you use "dollhairs" in an actual publication you're going to find it hard to be taken seriously.
They should have built out the feature set and had a good usable app before making the decision then. It was a dumb decision, full stop. Re-reading this it makes even less sense. Who is blaming them for researching 3rd party apps? And, OF COURSE, the investors are investing in reddit. That's why they should have a usable app of their OWN before dropping the ball like this.
Good design absolutely adds to the valuation. Like, what? If an app performs as badly as the native app to the point people have no choice but to use 3rd party apps for basic things like, I don't know, MODERATION, you need a drastic overhaul before shutting out those 3rd party apps.
I stopped reading it here. They lost me at this point. The author of this is either playing to reddit's side, has no idea of what's driving the current situation, or a mix of the two. There's no way someone that actually wrote an article about this, and actually researched it, would come away with this take. Comparing a paid service, like Medium, deleting the articles and things you have paid to access is vastly different than shutting down an established forum(subreddit), that voted do so, that was free of charge the entire time. I know they have paid subscriptions and their dumb NFT stuff, gotta pay the bills somehow, but that was such a brain dead take I had to stop.
I haven't read many Medium articles but if they're all this low of effort I don't feel I've missed out on much.
Once you hang around the fediverse long enough you’ll get used to the media being full of trashy the takes on social media.
Bottom line is that there’s a bit of a shake up or fracturing, and the average media talking head isn’t qualified to be insightful about it other than some basic vague feeling that a lack of stability in the structure of mass media is frustrating to them.
I’ve figured that the average media person’s mentality is geared toward mass distribution which conflicts entirely with the fediverse which is about diversity, choice, non-capitalistic work and freedom, and so they either don’t get it or have an interest in it failing, which really just reveals how much mass media is probably a bunch of big-corp bootlickers.
Even this 'writers' take is that their path was to move away from community and threaded conversations into monologues.
The guy is a self important twit full of bad takes
No joke.
The whole "Yeah i went to a platform where people couldn't argue with me as easily and i didn't have to face any criticism or being wrong. It's far better this way" schtick was really obvious by the end of it, and super gross to have read all the way through that "Objective and unbaised" slog of very biased ramblings.