Comment on How Quora Died
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoOne thing that corporate social media struggles to understand is that not all the users have the same impact in a platform. It’s extremely easy to take a mildly unpopular decision that only pisses off 0.5% of your userbase, and the platform becomes ruined because that 0.5% were damn important.
Pretty much what happened with reddit which lost all its power users.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 months ago
Yes, with a difference: Reddit knows it but doesn’t care due to the imminent IPO.
TheBat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
When is it? Feels like I’ve been hearing about reddit IPO for 3 years now.
isildun@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I’m almost starting to wonder if that’s the plan. Just keep saying “IPO IPO IPO” to get funding from over-eager VCs who want a piece of the IPO before it becomes widely available.
But then you just never IPO. Keep making minor to moderate mistakes along the way so you can be all “weeeeell we would have IPO’d but insert thing here so we want to wait another 6 months to let it die down”. Repeat until you’re ready to quit, then actually IPO and ride the initial IPO high all the way down via golden parachute.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 months ago
IIRC around March or so.
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Then watch as the porn purge begins. Then the site will slowly die.