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Why do so many tech companies, like Reddit and Twitter are making their platforms worse for their users all of a sudden? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by cilantrillo@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

I mean the purpose of a commercial platform is to create profit for the owners of the platform. I find it kind of funny that people are all outraged that these platform are pursuing their business interests. The mistake people made was to rely on these platforms to build their communities thinking that made them stakeholders.