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How Reddit set itself up for a fall(www.theverge.com)

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redditors_re_racist@lemmy.ml
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reddit was always a piece of shit that benefitted from the death of traditional forums and the gradual enclosure of the internet

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bec@lemmy.ml
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Between Reddit and Discord I don’t know who did more damage. Forums were neat, especially because knowledge on it was permanent

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Debs@lemmy.mlOP
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Yeah. I worry about how many things are moving into Discord. They are giving so much away for free right now that it stifling competition. Eventually they will need to turn a profit and, with competition reduced, they can get real shitty with it.

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office_account@feddit.de
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knowledge on it was permanent

Unless someone linked to something.
I have often found old forum posts related to some problem I have only to find the link to the suggested solution broken.

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True, but at least you could try to waybackmachine it, while discord is very often gated behind registration + phone verification and is not as easy to find the info you need

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