Each time I visit a reddit link and see the word “Deleted” in OPs post, my heart fills with joy.
I deleted my history on reddit (10+ years) and am moving over here. Still figuring out how to find the communities I want but I’ll get it.
So people will start using reddit alot less than they do anyway.
This is amusing, in the day and age where everyone is tired about subscriptions everywhere???
here’s hoping reddit crashes and burns. Not that it matters, spaz and co got their payout when they ipo’d.
Next wave of reddit exodus coming soon…
I followed Reddit Sync to Lemmy during the API fiasco. Even then, it was better than reddit had been in years. It’s only gotten better.
What’s Reddit sync to lemmy?
Sync is an application that originally was designed to browse Reddit on Android. When Reddit destroyed 3rd party access, Sync was redesigned for Lemmy.
Same bro, I’m still on Sync typing this to you 😄👍
No one said he was a rocket surgeon.
there’s no way to monetize lemmy, right?
just making sure i’m on the right liferaft…
Just don’t get too attached, Reddit was Digg’s liferaft… Once Thing go to shit, move on.
This site isn’t going to get popular enough to worry about. It’s large, sure, but people go to reddit because the sheer volume of users means your chances of catching breaking stories or real contributions by witnesses to events, is just much higher, there’s more of everything, and this is why they want to bleed it dry.
there’s probably a way to monetise everything but with the numbers of Linux people (yes we know you use arch shush) and anti-capitalists, i think we’re safe?
Maybe yes, but realistically no. It’s open source, so anyone could make their own clone of it with whatever monetization methods they want. If you ran an instance, you could also charge people to post on it. That said, with the way Lemmy is organized, people would just leave the offending instance for a different one.
Reddit’s mechanics are not the whole story about why it became the juggernaut it is, the platform of people making their own forums isn’t new. What happened was a few major sites like Digg, Somethingawful, Fark, 4chan and a lot of old-school staples on the internet from the 90’s on through the 2010’s suddenly lost popularity as their user base matured at the same time reddit moved in. There were other factors, sure I was around during it all but it’s all quite complicated, but I’m pretty sure if reddit broadly started returning 404’s tomorrow, Lemmy would see a slight jump in users but people are just going to want the next new thing and it would be some entirely new thing that captures the world’s online browsing.
I’ve never seen a website replace another by copying it’s layout and mechanics. I’ve seen a lot of popular platforms die, but never resurrect in the same form, people always want something novel and they want to feel like they’re getting in ground-floor on something special. Reddit still offers that by giving users a chance to contribute early to conversations about current events, but if there were a new system that gave people a similar system and found some other way to give users a little serotonin boost like the votes do, then it would slay reddit pretty handedly.
Seems like a bad time to be introducing such a thing in the immediate future when European users are already seeking out alternatives to US tech giants and US users are losing their jobs and facing rising grocery prices.
Wait REQUIRING?
so if a sub gets popular enough they can just say “pay wall.”
Just remember, when the barrier to entry is low then the quality of participants declines.
When the barrier is monetary, are you really getting the best folks?
A quick visit to Twitter would make the answer abundantly clear - no
This is demonstrably false.
Eat shit spez!
You mean the guy who claimed credit for his dead friend’s work?
Guys, Gals, my non-binary pals.
I hope you understand the assignment.
i usually suck at homework but i think i might understand this assignment :3
I forget the word for this, outpoopification? Insufficification? It escapes me.
enshittification
Spezification?
Diarheageddon
Xitterfecation
Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform.
Oh how exciting!
Lmfao that’s hilarious
