They added community features pretty heavily and it wasn’t bad at it. But then they got big and VC money came in.
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Evotech@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoUsed to be just an image upload site for Reddit mainly . But then enshittyfication happened as usual
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Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Enshittification is always the end ofost online platforms that aren’t federated because hosting costs money. Maintaining costs people. Which is more money. Especially as you scale out with popularity.
First step is ADs. But ad blockers prevent that revenue stream.
Second is monetization. (Reddit Gold or some premium BS)
Third is selling out.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
There isn’t a guarantee that federation protects against enshitification. Email has effectively been captured by a few providers.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
people always say this but at worst “a few” means like 50, which is a damn fucking sight better than every other platform which is ONE provider
neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I read “first step is active directories” and was super confused lol
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You and me both… I’ve switched to ADDS for OG win server AD though.