yes, especially on reddit, you could notice once a subreddit became big enough, at about 100k users I believe, it goes through enshitification and they lose their charm
i wouldn’t call it enshittification, just the fact that you can’t organically moderate places like that, so you end up either with basically a complete free for all only missing things that bots can reliably nuke from orbit, or you end up with strict rules for what can be posted and it turns into stackoverflow but for cat photos.
yes, especially on reddit, you could notice once a subreddit became big enough, at about 100k users I believe, it goes through enshitification and they lose their charm
Enshittification is when the owners make it shit.
When users make it shit, it’s called Eternal September.
i wouldn’t call it enshittification, just the fact that you can’t organically moderate places like that, so you end up either with basically a complete free for all only missing things that bots can reliably nuke from orbit, or you end up with strict rules for what can be posted and it turns into stackoverflow but for cat photos.