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How Quora Died (slate.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

Another social media site which followed the enshittification paradigm. This playbook has played out so many times until now. Start it with "good intentions" as a for-profit startup. People join and volunteer their time because the founders say all the right things and the site culture is so new and exciting. Once the site gets popular though, all the fancy talk from the founders goes out the window.

When will people learn this lesson? Don't ever volunteer your time on a for-profit proprietary social network. You will get rugpulled! We are all the value in all these sites. Why do we let them control our interactions, ffs?!

PS: Would be interesting to get a fediverse version of Quora. Or Maybe we can make something using Lemmy communities instead.

[–] CurlyMoustache 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

We could call it Fedora!

[–] ClockworkOtter 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cute, but already taken by the OS.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ThatWasTheJoke.heic

[–] CurlyMoustache 6 points 9 months ago

That .heic made my eye twitch. Reminded me of my coworkers at work not being able to open a photo they took on their iPhone, and that they want to use on the intranet

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