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Remember when sites would make bad decisions and then just, you know... fucking die? Reddit's entire existence is owed to Digg imploding like the Titan submarine.
Notice how that doesn't happen anymore? No matter how egregious their infractions, no movements away from Twitter or Facebook - no matter how deeply they are infiltrated/compromised by runaway fascism/capitalism - nothing has an impact. No backlash, no matter how huge - is strong enough to shutter these sites and make them stop being money-printing operations.
It's almost like there is an infinite money glitch going on and no matter what, if you're in the "in" crowd, your shit gets to stay around no matter how much everybody thinks it smells like shit.
Hm.
Because the Internet was smaller and was made up of select demographics.
Now, something that's completely unacceptable to some of the population won't even register with the majority.
its actually pretty hard to use the site as a new user, thier ban filters,botting filter is set so high right now its easy to get banned, or your comments removed, immediately, even if you are using illicit evasion methods.
That's the downside of having a group of millions of people, you can't moderate it like a community of people.
In a community of someone is acting out you can talk to them and try to engage. If there are hundreds of thousands of people, you don't have the time or energy and have to resort to brute force methods.
People always complain about the size of non-mainstream social media sites. They don't seem to realize that social networks are far higher quality when they are small. They're just not as economically valuable to the corporation that owns the servers.
If you're old, and used the Internet when it was young, before smartphones brought everyone online and converted the Internet into a theme park, you'd remember the forum communities.
It used to be that, when you'd search for a topic online, you'd find a forum full of enthusiastic people that were passionate about a topic. It was such a great time, you could have a conversation with actual experts and receive good advice from human beings.
That's all been replaced by subreddits full of millions of people spamming memes and bots pretending to be humans that REALLY LOVE a specific product (this sentence brought to you by NordBPN).