• HughJanus@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think you’re probably right but “that’s all there is to it” is a bit disingenuous unless you know something I don’t.

          • livus@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            Okay, but maybe don’t jump straight to calling someone a liar just because they don’t provide proof in their casual comment?

            You didn’t provide proof in your comment about Reddit losing VC funding due to interest rates, but that doesn’t mean you’re trying to mislead us.

  • Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’ve heard that moneied interests are paying Twitter and now reddit behind the scenes to ruin their respective communities. It’s because every time something happens that shakes the foundation of who’s in charge, it’s always a social media coordinated public effort behind the push for change. The most recent one I can think of is the Twitter-fueled women’s rights movement in Iran. Or even the push to get progressive names like AOC elected.

    So now we have rich interests paying CEOs to sabotage their own companies in order to better maintain the status quo.

    I know this concept falls squarely into conspiracy theory territory, but with Twitter and reddit, both once bastions of progressive organization, going to shit at the same time, and threads popping up with the messaging that they explicitly want to avoid news and politics, you can’t help but wonder if there’s a concentrated effort behind the scenes to break up communities that are actually starting to make a difference.

    • HughJanus@lemmy.mlOP
      17·
      1 year ago

      I mean what makes far more sense is that interests rates have skyrocketed, which means VC money dried up, which means these platforms that haven’t made money in over a decade suddenly have to figure out how to run themselves.

      It’s not just Reddit and Twitter, it’s YouTube and Twitch also.

      • Brkdncr@kbin.social
        12·
        1 year ago

        It also might have something to do with the people running the show are now being tasked with real work and it turns out they aren’t good at their job.

      • nicetriangle@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I think this is the Occam’s razor explanation that makes more sense. And why might Reddit be doing such a similar thing so soon after twitter? Spez has said he’s in touch with Elon and admires his business decisions. Simple as that.

    • Xeelee@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s a theory that fits the available evidence. So it’s more valid than most conspiracy theories.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      For those in control … there is no more terrible thing than to have all your workers talking amongst one another to discuss how terrible their situation is and what they could all do about it.

      It’s the same in prison … if the guards and management keep everyone in control by isolating them all. Once the inmates start talking to one another, they start to conspire and plan on what to do about their situation. If they plan long enough, they’ll figure out how to do illegal activity, find specialty items or contraband … give them more time and they’ll start trying to figure out how to break out of their situation.

      Then when things go too far and all sorts of illegal activity is taking place and people are trying to break out … the guards and managers will shake up the prison and breakup the communications system they were all using.

    • WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      It doesn’t sound too outlandish. The destruction of Twitter seems to attract some replacement from the far-right groups, Threads is already gaining far-right pages promotion and Reddit is still in the phase of destroying a once very influencial community. And all in the same time as the beginning of the US electoral campaign. It really aligns with a concentrated effort