Reddit Founder Says Building Social Media Apps Is ‘Not Cool Anymore’
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has voiced skepticism about building social media apps, suggesting that much of the internet has become too compromised to make user-generated content platforms worth pursuing in their current form.
Why this matters: One of the people who built the modern social web is saying the model is broken. That is worth taking seriously. User-generated content platforms made promises about community and open expression, then spent years selling that content and attention to advertisers, training AI models, and optimizing for engagement over trust. If the architects are stepping back and asking what comes next, the rest of us should be asking the same thing before the next version gets built the same way.
Who should care: Cybersecurity · Privacy officers · Administrators
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