I mean there’s Reddit ofc, as well as Twitter in its entirety, Discord is implementing some dumb updates, there are issues with Tumblr as well as everything to do with Meta, and I’m sure there are plenty more (and I haven’t even touched other digital media, for example the Sims). Why is it all happening in the span of about a couple months?
It’s odd that all of this is happening at once, but if I had to bet on a cause it is complacency.
The internet used to be fast in trading the hands of “power”. Social medias/major forums would fall just as quickly as they rose. This began to change in 2008-2010 when we sort of developed the Status Quo of websites we see nowadays.
I think these corporations forgot that social medias are not indefinite, and assumed that they could safely get away with much more now than they actually can.
Glad to see new platforms such as Lemmy rising to the task. Change the status quo.