This is a theory that’s previously been stated in log/39-normie-hypothesis.gmi, but I think it’s worth expanding on as it’s become very relevant with the recent Reddit shit-show actualizing just how bad that website has gotten along with social media in general. I think the model demonstrate how the ’enshittification’ process is an inevitability with any social media that is run on a venture capital model. An online community can be like a village, where you have familiar faces, collective experiences, shared values and so forth.

Great writing on the current Reddit saga. The author put down in words a lot of things in my mind I couldn’t find the right words.

    • nii236@lemmy.jtmn.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Not this part tho

      From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle

      Steam started off shit and got better. Unshittification?

      • Darohan@lemmy.sdf.orgBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        True, you’re right about that! I spent most of the article wondering when they were going to justify that claim, then they didn’t so I just kinda discarded it 😂