- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemdro.id
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemdro.id
Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably. But Reddit leadership has all the funds they need to hire people to perform those extra tasks we formerly undertook as volunteer moderators, and we’d be happy to collaborate with them if they choose to do so.
enshittification as defined by Cory Doctorow shouldn’t be possible on the fediverse because the fediverse isn’t run by any one corporate entity. The cycle of [good for users -> good for advertisers -> good for the company itself -> site death] shouldn’t happen, or at least should be much less common, since the fediverse makes it really easy to swap instances if the owners of yours decide to enshittify.
(I agree with and enjoy your first paragraph, though)