Because the users are their product.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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In the fediverse you are a person and you are imporant, not a product to get the max profit from
OP didn't mention Fediverse. How's your comment relevant?
Its related? It did mention people and I talked about people
Calling a person an "it" is a bit offensive... And no, it's not related.
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The answer is AI. Amongst other things. Reddit is about to go public and wants everyone on their main app for advertising and tracking. Twitter is dealing with hosting issues with Google.
Plus AI companies are extracting content from Twitter and Reddit to train their AI models like chatGPT which is a huge money maker, and these platforms aren't getting any money from it so they're trying to make it more difficult to get access to it. They want companies like OpenAI and Stability and Microsoft and Google to pay large sums of money for access to their content to train AI on.
The thing with AI is that it is both a parasite to the content it is trained on and an alternative to it because people who ask AI don't ask in forums
These tech giants are searching for a way to keep everyone happy but I honestly don't see any
Reddit just realized it has been sitting on a pile of gold the entire time and now it wants to reap its rewards
Makes me wish there was a way to force them to remove everything I ever posted on their site.
But... It's their site and I put the shit there. Who knew it would come to this, though?
You can use powerDeleteSuite to delete everything from your reddit account
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They forget the users are their base, not their employees, or are bought by idiot billionaires who think they can turn the platform I to another money printer (or tax write-off)
Spez in particular saw Twitter and thought that would be a great idea.
I don't think he understands he's about to be CEO of Tumblr 2.0
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While these changes will eventually happen, as all of these companies are meant to make a profit from the start. The reason they're all happening now is because of the coming recession, or at least the believe that it will come.
There's a coming recession?
When billionaire fascists start being held to account, they lash out.
Let's stop misusing the word fascist.
Elon Musk just said that people without children shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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Don't worry, YouTube blocking will be easily bypassed, like on Twitch.
Greedy capitalists believe line must always go up. They will sacrifice every moral principle to their invisible hand god.
Time for a open-source youtube alternative, I haven't yet been convinced that Odysee, Rumble, Nebula are it.
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We're not people to them, just part of a product. Why do anything more than absolutely necessary to keep the money flowing in? Save a fraction of a penny on bandwidth, earn another fraction by selling more complete data and ad views. Multiply that by the number of users and if enough will tolerate it, somebody at the top can buy a shiny new yacht.
I'm ok with the YouTube one. Twitter dumb. Reddit not that bad but should have just charged people.