Reddit just wrapped up its second earnings call as a public company and CEO Steve Huffman hinted at some significant changes that could be coming to the platform.
Paid subs will maim (not kill) the platform. Expect to see an exodus if this happens
No thanks, Spez.
Reddit sucks hairy balls.
That’s an insult to both hairy balls and sucking them.
I judge neither. I do, however, judge Spez.
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Serious why aren’t more people flocking over here when we got such good third-party apps?
Yeah I know instances are little more complicated than a centralized platform.
I arrived today as a result of this news. I’m sure I’m not alone
I tried to explain the concept of Lemmy and most said this whole concept of federation sounds too complicated for some social media site they use on the toilet or when going to bed…
So I think accesibility ia the biggest problem, even though Lemmy isn’t actually that hard to use, it just sounds hard to use. I think many more people join in if they wouldn’t have to pick an instance
Skip the federation. Just give them to link to an instance and a few communities.
That’s enough to start
Lemmy isn’t THAT hard to use, but it’s def not as user friendly as Reddit at first glance. That’s why I waited a bit to come here. Turns out that it’s not that hard, but it def does NOT look friendly when you come from Reddit. So many versions, you don’t know which one, so many instances, etc.
But reddit has become such an asshole if one doesn’t subscribe to their exact political narrative, I finally switched over today. I legit got banned because I posted a news article about the Green Party to the r /politics sub.
I immediately used VPN and just created another account, so not a huge deal. But then I was like, why? I want something new. Fuck reddit.
So the news that reddit may start charging is just icing on that shitcake.
The Boomers and Xoomers can destroy Reddit like they did Facebook while Spez sells the data from the golden years.
It won’t last long. I am guessing almost all of prime Reddit years have been scraped and the interest in the AI shitposting that remains won’t be worth much for anyone.
Ok so…people would pay him, for the privilege of providing him with content, that he will then sell to the highest bidders, keeping all profits for himself, and continuing to do this in perpetuity, because they also paid for the privilege of having him own the content they created until the end of time. Do I have that about right? (Yes I know it’s not actually exactly him)
And also probably have volunteer mods in the paid subreddits…
Why even stop at that? Make mods pay for the privilege of having to work moderating
Pretty much textbook MLM strategy. You can be the mod of the Suckers’ Channel, but you need to pay me a stipend for the privilege.
Its already how a bunch of the site works, given how much influence advertisers and influencers have over what hits the front page.
Taking a page right out of Elsevier’s playbook!
Oh shit, here we go boys! Hold tight, cause’ the influx of new Lemmings is gonna explode :D
Back in 2000, Time-Warner decided to purchase AOL. AOL had spent the last 5 years bleeding (dial-up) customers to their main competitors… anything that wasn’t dial-up.
Time-Warner hailed the “merger” as the Deal of the Century.
Later, Time-Warner admitted, “We didn’t realize that all those customers we thought we had purchased could simply leave.”
I doubt people will come here. The lack of moderation has made almost everyone that isn’t already here think that Lemmy is a bunch of political extremists, like Voat.
lol imagine having an invaluable resource like users that engage and actually give a shit and then sitting around in a high rise board meeting discussion where in you tap your fingers together capitalistically and discuss all the ways you can press, milk, squeeeeeeze every last drop of value of these poor saps. Lemmy for life! Long live the … lemming? Whatever it is. I love y’all. 😘😘😘😘
paid subreddits
You can just say you’re doing porn.
That (oh and me getting banned for posting a positive news article about the Green Party to the main general politics sub) is why I found a new home here. Fuck reddit! lol
