They added community features pretty heavily and it wasn’t bad at it. But then they got big and VC money came in.
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Evotech@lemmy.world 14 hours agoUsed to be just an image upload site for Reddit mainly . But then enshittyfication happened as usual
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Landless2029@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Enshittification is always the end ofost online platforms that aren’t federated because hosting costs money. Maintaining costs people. Which is more money. Especially as you scale out with popularity.
First step is ADs. But ad blockers prevent that revenue stream.
Second is monetization. (Reddit Gold or some premium BS)
Third is selling out.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 13 hours ago
There isn’t a guarantee that federation protects against enshitification. Email has effectively been captured by a few providers.