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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] teft@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you underestimate how ignorant people can be. The reason Aol still exists is because they are grifters too. My Aol example was to show that people are docile idiots and won't change their habits. Aol is grifting just as much as reddit does. They're just grifting different groups in different ways.

That's why i think reddit and twitter will continue on for a long time. Maybe not as powerhouses but they won't implode or go away any time soon.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

My mom was still paying for dial-up AOL in 2016. She had been paying them $20 a month for over a decade while having high-speed internet that she was also paying for.

When I asked her why she didn't cancel it, she said she would lose her email.

So I canceled it because AOL provides free email because they make money off of the ads.