I mean there’s Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I’m sure there are plenty more (and I haven’t even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a couple months?

  • SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at
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    1 year ago

    I really think VC is to blame for a lot of it. Although not in Twitter’s case… And I assume meta is backed by a VC (although they might be).

    In the end it comes down to these investors wanting a return on their investment and those in charge of the VC usually go one of two route:

    • inject ads in as many places as possible
    • track as much of the users data and sell it