Reddit's Aggressive User Bans, Superficial Engagement, and Monetization at Any Cost
znetwork.org
In this article, I take a look at Marx's distinction between “use-value” and “exchange-value” and apply it to one of the internet's largest platforms:

This article looks at Reddit as a “comment economy.” Beneath the rhetoric of community and information sharing, the platform’s economic incentives favor conformity, reaction, endless engagement, and compulsive commenting over independent thought, meaningful discourse, and the exchange of knowledge.

Reddit’s revenue ultimately depends upon the creation of, extended attention to and the scrolling through of massive amounts of comments. This produces advertising opportunities, data value, repeat visits and valuable user engagement metrics.

  • jumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Nazism was legitimate enough to win some rigged elections in Germany less than a hundred years ago, I’m curious about how you would define minority and manage to exclude them while including the jewish that support Israel?