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What a dookie instance. Can't believe I spent over a decade in that corporate zoo
I mean, it didn’t start as one, but it morphed into one over time. Early Reddit was pretty great.
Yeah I wasn't aware of the ol platform enshitification pattern. Hardly anyone was - probably the creators and administors of reddit weren't entirely aware either.
We were just a bunch of folks on the net trying things.
platform enshittification
It was called Eternal September back from Usenet days when the Internet was mainly an academic thing and every September old users braced for an influx of freshmen starting new academic year and getting access to newsgroups. I was aware shit was reddit's final form even back in 2006. I'm actually surprised the shareholders left it unmolested for so long.
When the students came in and got on Usenet, that was just regular September. Eternal September when AOL or CompuServe, or one of those added Usenet. It was like the kids never had to leave at the end of the academic year.
That wasn't enshittification, just an influx of inexperienced users. Once the corporations got involved, that's when enshittification truly began.
Except for all the child abuse of course
It wasn't always like that. The real shitshow only started when Huffman took over.