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Reddit's Aggressive User Bans, Superficial Engagement and Monetization at any Cost (znetwork.org)
submitted 4 days ago by [M] to c/watchredditdie@sh.itjust.works
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53085066

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.

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[–] 11 points 4 days ago (1 child)

Although Reddit possesses many of the structural features of a public sphere, its economic incentives increasingly reward bias, outrage, conformity and superficial engagement instead of the kind of informed discussion and critical reflection that could lead to beneficial social change.

Unfortunately not enough people realized this three years ago, and most still don't.

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