After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...
Banning talk of alternative communities will create a Streisand effect. This happened with Mastodon- more people heard about Mastodon when Twitter started banning talk about Mastodon, which snowballed into stories about Mastodon even on sites like CNN.
Absolutely! Every single time some company does this sort of thing I mentally facepalm and scream internally for a second. Sure this is not some secret executives are unaware of.
Banning talk of alternative communities will create a Streisand effect. This happened with Mastodon- more people heard about Mastodon when Twitter started banning talk about Mastodon, which snowballed into stories about Mastodon even on sites like CNN.
Absolutely! Every single time some company does this sort of thing I mentally facepalm and scream internally for a second. Sure this is not some secret executives are unaware of.