Post AWfIUA8KMnD8637ptg by caseynewton@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AWfIUA8KMnD8637ptg by caseynewton@mastodon.social
       2023-06-14T00:05:30Z
       
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       Steve Huffman’s comments to Reddit employees yesterday seem likely to exacerbate the furor the company now finds itself caught in https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-doubles-down
       
 (DIR) Post #AWfIUAi8Dfqnt5sQhk by wogan@mastodon.africa
       2023-06-14T00:20:16Z
       
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       @caseynewton Statistically, platform furors tend to die down when unpopular changes are begrudgingly accepted, but everything we know about human behavior in this context this comes from the last, what, 20 years?Given what Reddit is (a platform for other people's content), what it wants to be (a profitable business that can IPO), and the increasingly-harsh tradeoffs they'll have to make to balance that - plus rising decentralization! - I dunno that I'd be confident in historical behavior.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWfJ14lBMiQIzIzfgO by wogan@mastodon.africa
       2023-06-14T00:26:14Z
       
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       @caseynewton The single, largest, most successful example of monetizing other people's content at scale (and not their demographics or search patterns) is probably YouTube? And even YouTube does not report directly to shareholders, far as I'm aware.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWg1PcumQU67qm03ua by Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social
       2023-06-14T08:43:39Z
       
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       @wogan @caseynewton if it really is just a platform for other people’s content, how come so many google searches lead to Reddit for answers?
       
 (DIR) Post #AWg1Thu9ocvaU6edZA by wogan@mastodon.africa
       2023-06-14T08:44:26Z
       
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       @Stefan_S_from_H Really feels like you answered your own question there. Who do you think wrote the content that Google is indexing?@caseynewton
       
 (DIR) Post #AWg6VuXmIJcK2A3abo by Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social
       2023-06-14T09:40:49Z
       
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       @wogan @caseynewton Oops, I thought you are from the journalism bubble that hates link aggregators.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWg6lCc9OIOqQFOT2W by implausiblegrrl@tech.lgbt
       2023-06-14T09:43:35Z
       
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       @wogan @caseynewton It is worth noting that the *reason* Reddit is popular today is because *Digg* made that same bet that they could just ride out users angry about site changes 2010
       
 (DIR) Post #AWgJNAfgGKNaqlurWy by wogan@mastodon.africa
       2023-06-14T12:04:55Z
       
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       @implausiblegrrl @caseynewton I forgot Digg was a thing 😂