• ipkpjersi@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    They are trying to squeeze as much money out of their platforms as possible, regardless of the fact that it’s at the expense of users and will downgrade users experiences.

  • pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml
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    The user bubble has popped now that investors started questioning why the fuck they’ve been investing huge amounts of money into companies that make no money just because they have lots of users. With that investment money drying up, these tech companies are desperate to start making a profit so they can survive and grow their value still.

    TLDR: investment in unprofitable tech companies is drying up and companies that aren’t profitable are scrambling to make money.

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        I don’t think “greed” is quite the right word. “Greed” would be the right word if they were trying to make themselves more profitable. But they’re not: they’re trying to make themselves profitable at all. That’s not about greed, but about surviving. You can’t survive unless you stop hemorrhaging money at some point.

        Maybe the question is “Why do investors invest so many hundred of billions of dollars into companies that cannot be profitable without becoming super-shitty? And why do users join them knowing that they’re going to become super-shitty one day?”

      • epicspongee [they/them or he/him]@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        To expand on this, it’s not just capitalism - it’s greed.

        No it’s just capitalism lol. Every company has to continue reaping in profits for capitalists or else it dies. This is just Reddit’s way of doing that.

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    1 year ago

    Ultimately a for-profit social platform can only make money via advertising. If you are depending on advertisers to be profitable you become beholden to those advertisers. Advertisers do not care about “community,” “sustainability,” or what made the platform attractive to users in the first place. But they do care about “public perception,” and “number of users,” and most importantly number of impressions per user, per hour. The advertisers customers care about things that hurt their branch, so they dont’ want NSFW content, they don’t want violent content, they don’t want controversial content, they don’t want anti-capitalist content, they want “quality” impressions.

    So if you are twitter or reddit, or facebook, or whatever, if your advertisers make a demand that will piss off your users and make it worse for them you will always do it and you will continue to do it until the platform dies.