calling the reduced headcount there an example of how a social media site can be without the massive revenue of a company like Google.

My brother in Christ, you raised the head count

He wishes he were elon musk, or that his company was as influential as twitter, but in the end it's just a tool for open access forums and most users seem to dislike the site-wide policy and the disrespect for the free contribution to the site. Most social media companies would appreciate the loyalty towards those subreddits that both users and mods use to show, and in that regard those are the real value of the platform.

The arrogance behind those messages seems to imply that he sees users as a product, and it is what he misunderstood: this is the true value behind the social media, the human users, the network effect and so on. So reddit is largely wasting this underutilised potential.

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Agreed. The only problem is that I think most people will stop at landed gentry and say, "BAD!" without thinking through the full context like you just did.

Reminds me of SBF's bizarre interview spree right before he got arrested. Or Alex Murdaugh that southern lawyer that killed a bunch of people and stole a bunch of money and thought it would be a good idea to testify in his own trial and got destroyed by cross-examination smh

When a man becomes so rich and his "thing" so popular, he thinks he is smart enough to be an expert in anything all at once