Reddit Blackout Crashes The Site As Reddit Users Realize They’re In The Power Position
www.techdirt.comFrom the article:
And this bumps up against another part of Cory’s enshittifcation concept: it only works when switching costs are high. Social media can make that work. But I’m not so sure that Reddit has the sheer gravitational pull that social media has. Yes, there are social media-like communities on various subreddits. But, on the whole, the communities are built around topics, and it’s kind of easy to just move elsewhere (again, fediverse options Lemmy and Kbin are already looking pretty nice for that).
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The Reddit community is the one in charge if the ceo doesn’t like it then we will go somewhere else and build our own community !
I mean, honestly? Yeah. People forget that their widespread support and cooperation is ultimately the source of other people’s power. Your boss might be able to fire you, but they can’t fire everybody.
To be a pedant: They’re using “social media” wrong. They mean “social networking site”, which Reddit is not. But it absolutely is a “social media” site.
They’re right about Reddit’s lack of social graph making it much less sticky, though.