Well I think we're gonna see another influx
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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Can confirm. That's why im here. Figured I'd just jump earlier with the whole avoiding US companies vibe too.
Yea, I'm one.
one of us one of us
Yep, hi, here am I. Usually I think news like these are fearmongering for clickbait, like those old "Facebook is going to be paiiidd!" (As if "being free" wasn't at the very core of its appeal and selling point) but reading the room this day and age I don't think I'd be that surprise if a change like that did happen to Reddit. The only good think about this shitstorm of an age is that it made me find the fediverse and I will never forgive myself for not caring enough to find it earlier.
a few days ago i saw how r/redditalternatives has only "lemmy bad!" posts and i know for a fact folks here have been spreading the word about lemmy in a positive way so don't blame yourself, reddit has been actively censoring any good thing said about lemmy or the fediverse in general
i looked marginally deeper into this and it's apparently all the way to shadow bans :) link
seems like its posted around the same time reddit started banning people in large numbers.
Oh, so that's why I saw some post about reddit alternatives and the person replying had to mask lemmy. Oh wow.
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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.
I hope all the lemmy instances are ready for a surge of users. Let's encourage redditors to join Lemmy and learn the kinks and quirks by trial and error. Let's be kind to the newcomers.
This is the mindset to have when new people discover anything you enjoy. Great way to put it.
service that owes its popularity largely to its low barrier to entry signals higher barriers to entry
cool! please do.
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As soon as I read that I thought I'd make an account here.
Welcome! It's weird here, but it's great.
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Each time I visit a reddit link and see the word "Deleted" in OPs post, my heart fills with joy.
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Some subreddits, like r/Watchexchange, where Redditors “buy, sell or trade watches,” according to the subreddit’s description, are centered on transactions. Huffman said the fact that users are already “transacting on Reddit kind of opens the door” for such monetization.
"Hey! How dare you exchange things with each other without giving us a cut!"
Whole lot of “Reddit, what are you going to do about the scammers now that we’re paying you?” posts are coming. The answer is nothing. They’ll do nothing.
Actually, they’ll write their lack of culpability more explicitly into the ToS, and then do nothing.
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Wait REQUIRING?
so if a sub gets popular enough they can just say "pay wall."
i think they will have a youtube/patreon type thing going on, free content on youtube, while thier patreon gets"exclusive content"
No one said he was a rocket surgeon.
To be honest, this is actually a genius move when it comes to NSFW content.
Almost every pornographic sub has already been astroturfed by e-girls plugging their OnlyFans and Fansly links. Giving them the ability to paywall their content directly on Reddit effectively cuts out the middle-man and allows Reddit to undercut the likes of OF and Fansly with lower transaction fees.
Yes let's put a site that consists pretty much entirely of user-created content behind a paywall, what could possibly go wrong?
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It'll be the porn they charge for.
They know only wankers will give them money.
What’s funny about that is Reddit is mostly just an advertising front for onlyfans at this point
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Recent recruit from Reddit. Finally made the jump. Love the apps like Boost, Thunder and Voyager.
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there's no way to monetize lemmy, right?
just making sure i'm on the right liferaft...
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Time to move on over here I guess.
Just jumped the ship at the right time. The API wars were just a preview...
Guys, Gals, my non-binary pals.
I hope you understand the assignment.
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Well, that’s the death of the free* forum. Went from BBS to newsgroups to phpBB to Reddit, each soft-killing its predecessor. But like WalMart killing Main Street, Reddit is going to kill the free forum.
Thank goodness for Lemmy and other free* social network software.
*free with the asterisk because we know it’s not free, we are enjoying the service that others volunteer to pay for.
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Just remember, when the barrier to entry is low then the quality of participants declines.
Edit: I just realized that I should have specified an intellectual barrier. In the case of Lemmy that's the minuscule technical understanding or research ability needed to sign up and get on an instance. It's amazing how just that tiny obstructions helps keep out the dumbest of Reddit users.
When the barrier is monetary, are you really getting the best folks?
A quick visit to Twitter would make the answer abundantly clear - no
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Lemmy admins, hold onto your butts
fun fact: you dont have to use websites
So Reddit wants to move to a pay model, which would mean they'd have banking information on record for any user that might be of interest to the federal government.
No thank you.
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