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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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What's happening with Twitch? I haven't heard anything.
The post title implies it were prevalent. Which it is not. Three platforms is not a lot overall.
The reasons between Twitter and Reddit are very different.
Twitter was fine. It's on a single Person - Elon Musk - who bought Twitter. All changes after it were through them.
Reddit became a big platform. Now it's run not by a small team but by a big company with management and CEO. Supposedly targeting going public, and probably focusing no longer on usefulness and the service but on profitability and growth. An inherently, broadly, and very different mindset and goals.
I don't think that's necessarily true. It wasn't about to collapse, but its stock was also anemic and it was flailing. It wouldn't have decided to alienate advertisers and fire its whole trust and safety team without Elon, but it was eventually going to have to do something to "monetize" users more effectively.