The Reddit blackout will continue
The first 10 years of the internet were volunteers creating for other volunteers. The next 10 was volunteers for 'users'. The last 10, for corporations.<p>The commons built in the 90s was turned into a playground in the 2000s and is now a oil well being mined by megacorps.<p>What, I hope, interest rates are doing is shifting the balance of power to its natural point: the commons is owned by the volunteers. Megacorp's ability to profit from this was a disguise created by free money.<p>With any luck twitter/reddit/facebook/et al. will disappear in favour of their "corresponding wikipedias" --- which is the model, I think, all the "platform creators" thought they were participating in.<p>There needs to be new alliances between volunteer-platform-creators and volunteer-content-creators