It’s becoming harder and harder to understand Reddit’s actions. What are they trying to achieve with this???
They aren’t benefitting corporate customers in detriment of the users, so it’s hard to claim enshittification. In another context, this icon restriction would encourage users to buy premium, but they went out of their way to piss off the most engaged parts of the userbase (the ones who’d likely buy premium to begin with). And all those changes actually increase the risk associated with Reddit in the short term, so potential IPO buyers would value the brand lower because of that, not higher.
The only way to explain this is if someone is actively trying to wreck pre-IPO Reddit, so it sells dirty cheap.
I’m just toying with the idea, don’t trust it, but what if Musk is the one doing it, by greasing Huffman’s hands, for an eventual Twitter-Reddit merge?
It’s becoming harder and harder to understand Reddit’s actions. What are they trying to achieve with this???
They aren’t benefitting corporate customers in detriment of the users, so it’s hard to claim enshittification. In another context, this icon restriction would encourage users to buy premium, but they went out of their way to piss off the most engaged parts of the userbase (the ones who’d likely buy premium to begin with). And all those changes actually increase the risk associated with Reddit in the short term, so potential IPO buyers would value the brand lower because of that, not higher.
The only way to explain this is if someone is actively trying to wreck pre-IPO Reddit, so it sells dirty cheap.
I’m just toying with the idea, don’t trust it, but what if Musk is the one doing it, by greasing Huffman’s hands, for an eventual Twitter-Reddit merge?