Hm, I never really thought of it that way. In general I agree with what you’re saying.
Thinking about it more, maybe one way to stay profitable while avoiding egregious privacy violations through ads/monetizing user content would be to offer a subscription service? You would need to have a critical mass of paying users, but it could work… just wouldn’t be very profitable I guess. Probably would have some logistics issues too.
For sure, I also can’t believe reddit has much intrinsic value when it’s botted/astroturfed to oblivion… I think that tech savvy investors are aware of these issues and may just end up shorting the stock. No matter what someone’s making money off of this.
Yeah I agree, this is basically how my friends and I approached Warzone. I don't know if Fortnite lets you hear enemy comms on death but hearing peoples reactions to your shenanigans was always fun.
I wish they would add more context to their specs, like how some devs list resolution/fps targets.
Yeah that's basically it. Bots had overtaken Reddit too and just propagated that problem by re-posting posts/top comments.
Its a reference to Usenet back in 1993, its essentially when an online community has to deal with a never ending influx of new users. So think of this as Reddit before it got big/mainstream.