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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by patcon on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:49AM (#21782562)
> It will be interesting to see where the breaking point actually is; I've always felt that platform users deserve a little more respect than that.

I read your comment as a really strong case for platform co-operativism -- multi-stakeholder democracy for online platforms: not just owners making decisions, but users and maybe employees together with owners. Generally, democratic currents (whether government or corporate) only emerge through changes in our collective sense of "how things should be".

I'm hoping we all start to realize we're serfs on all these platforms, and start wondering "hey, we're generating most of this wealth... why aren't we given a say in decision-making?"

Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by bcmo on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:58AM (#21782666)
Crypto-social platforms promised to solve this -- but we've seen how that's gone.