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...
  • Syrup
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • IllecorsOPMA
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      1 year ago

      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.