I have wondered for a while what the best outcome would be for that situation. Of course, shutting it down would still be a net positive. But I can't help but feel the best possible outcome would be similar to what happened to twitter. Take it over, purge it, and make the crazies flee to a containment chamber while retaining most of the normies.
Because as it stands, just nuking it would potentially just cause an alternative to take its place immediately. Although I suppose many normies would be lost in the process, which would be very helpful. The presence of plenty of normies being gradually swayed and brainwashed is what makes Reddit much more harmful than something like BlueSky that has virtually zero people outside of the radical left and people there to expressly troll them, keep tabs on them, or farm their engagement.
I have wondered for a while what the best outcome would be for that situation. Of course, shutting it down would still be a net positive. But I can't help but feel the best possible outcome would be similar to what happened to twitter. Take it over, purge it, and make the crazies flee to a containment chamber while retaining most of the normies.
Because as it stands, just nuking it would potentially just cause an alternative to take its place immediately. Although I suppose many normies would be lost in the process, which would be very helpful. The presence of plenty of normies being gradually swayed and brainwashed is what makes Reddit much more harmful than something like BlueSky that has virtually zero people outside of the radical left and people there to expressly troll them, keep tabs on them, or farm their engagement.
Twitter could be worth the money, but I don't think Reddit can be. It's true income comes as a form of infotainment-advertising.
Our old keyboard-forums are kind of an archaic medium at this point.