killick

But, Brawndo has what plants crave. It has electrolytes.

OK, true, but that's why they want to charge 3rd party apps.

Ehh, if Reddit is getting traffic from people going to see the trolling, then Reddit is still making money.

How do I kick in to pay kbin.social costs?

You made me chuckle.

Here’s the first paragraph from Cory’s post:

“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.” Reddit is in step 4.

You’re completely right from a user’s perspective. I think this post from Cory Doctorow helps explain what we’re seeing. He doesn’t talk about Reddit specifically, but it should be easy to infer the implications for Reddit from what he writes: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/