Is Reddit Really Going to Have A 'Blackout'?

[Darren_Garrison]

@B.Serum

Unsurprisingly, Cory Doctorrow has an insightful piece on the life cycle of platforms, which he dubs “enshittification.” it’s not written specifically about Reddit or the protest, but one can see how it maps onto Reddit’s gradual metamorphosis.

AI affecting Stack Overflow and Reddit

Seems to me that it’s almost entirely about advertising. The third-party apps bypass the advertising you get with the web page or standard app. I was thinking earlier about how Cory Doctorow’s thesis about enshittification gets the emphasis wrong. Why is it that platforms are ever not shitty? It’s because early on, they’re funded by VC or other investor money, and can afford to prop up an unsustainable business model. Then the free money dries up, the platform has to either charge a subscr…