Opinion: Reddit's move to revoke API access is illustrative of a flaw that makes traditional tech vulnerable to replacement.
social platforms set out to offer all the functionality of a Web2 space but with this critical difference: Their objective is to maximize openness, collaboration with partners and transparency, not just the platform’s dollars and cents.
Since many Web3 social media platforms are owned and guided by their communities and highly value partner collaboration, they tend to be safer from arbitrary decision-making and profiteering. They are also built on blockchain technology, which can include financial rails that enable platforms, users and partners to synergistically profit from platform growth.
This means they will never forget the truth that Reddit and many other Web2 platforms seem to forget in the throes of ambition: that nurturing an engaged, innovative user and developer community leads to exciting functionality that serves the community. Social media platforms should be built to serve their communities, not just to produce profits for investors and executives. And however successful they may become, they should never turn their backs on the committed and enthusiastic developers that helped them at the start.has served as the founder and CEO of DSCVR, a Web3 social media platform, since 2022. He previously worked as a technical program manager for Google and as an engineering director for BCG Digital Ventures.
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