Spez here thinking that the content hosting is more important than content generation. Reddit’s value to the community or advertisers is a result of the users, not Reddit Inc.
The big difference between Reddit and Facebook/twitter is that they were content moderation companies and they failed because they didn’t invest enough in it to keep the platform from going toxic.
Reddit has free content generation, free content moderation and they still can’t make a fucking profit.
I mean to be fair, I imagine when communities were in blackout things were looking dire. I haven’t been to reddit since, but I imagine things are pretty much back to normal? So it’s clear he can sort of spit on the reddit userbase how much he wants. People will still come back.
This just amazes me. It seems as if their blinded by power. Actually thinking they’re the true and only Frontpage of the internet.
Spez here thinking that the content hosting is more important than content generation. Reddit’s value to the community or advertisers is a result of the users, not Reddit Inc.
The big difference between Reddit and Facebook/twitter is that they were content moderation companies and they failed because they didn’t invest enough in it to keep the platform from going toxic.
Reddit has free content generation, free content moderation and they still can’t make a fucking profit.
I mean to be fair, I imagine when communities were in blackout things were looking dire. I haven’t been to reddit since, but I imagine things are pretty much back to normal? So it’s clear he can sort of spit on the reddit userbase how much he wants. People will still come back.
Yahoo moment