Re:ArchiveTeam Warrior backing up Reddit
by romwell on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:33PM
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I really don't think you can blame Facebook for the idiotic decisions of others who're cargo culting its strategies.
It's not like Facebook held a gun to Reddit and forced them to have videos.
The answer to the "why" question should be obvious: it's the same in every case. "We" shouldn't do what FAANG is doing because we are not FAANG".
On that point, just because Floyd Mayweather makes a ton of money in the ring, you probably should not, even though you also have fists and can throw a punch.
Same with the framework/platform hype. You don't have Google scale, means you don't have Google's problems that they have deviced solutions for. A megatanker perhaps isn't the best boat for a weekend fishing getaway.
But I digress.
I don't know that this is the case of course, but can I blame Facebook? They "pivoted to video" while lying about their metrics and it wouldn't surprise me if the rest of Silicon Valley is like "Hey, they're making lots of money, why don't we do what they're doing?"