[cmsonger]

I'm coming to the conclusion that capitalism kills all interesting social media for me. The founders build something. It's pretty good. I engage. They decide they need to make more money. They make a change that I find annoying or unacceptable. I leave the platform.

Facebook, Twitter, .... now reddit? Might be.

And it's never advertisement. Advertise away. It's usually one of two things: encroaching on privacy or pushing "engagement." I'd have left reddit years ago except that I could opt out of the re-design.

IMO, we need some well funded and user focused non-profits to provide social media. Capitalism and the drive for growth is destroying these platforms from within.

[newswasboring]

Capitalism does not mandate growth, thats just pure investor greed. I hate capitalism as much as the next person but lets not forget its the greed that ruins it for everyone, not the basics of the system. I would acknowledge that it seems like capitalism actually facilitates greed more than other systems as it gives a single KPI to track what you have.