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.
No thanks, Spez.
Reddit sucks hairy balls.
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 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
I guess with the average person just send them to LemmyWorld describing it like reddit and then let them figure out the rest. Instances may sound scary at first until they’re not.
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.
Paid subs will maim (not kill) the platform. Expect to see an exodus if this happens
I’m not convinced it’s 100% the worst idea though. The fediverse is entirely self and donor funded. Paid subs as an extension to free tiers might be a viable solution for a platform like this. Not Reddit because they’re too far gone, but if there was some kind of enhanced feature set along with improved moderation and overall program support by way of paid subs, it’s not all that different from how the fediverse operates. Of course I would argue that paid subs should not be limited in content or offer any means of priority publishing and completely optional for users and anons alike seems like a fair idea.
The whole point of news aggregators like Lemmy and (originally) reddit is to encourage discussion by collecting news articles/content and organizing it. I think segregating your user base makes that harder.
I think the only ones with enough interest to pay for a sub are companies that want more control over what is posted there. I imagine it will be focused on companies wanting a more formal presence on Reddit.
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)
Why even stop at that? Make mods pay for the privilege of having to work moderating
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.
Whenever someone brings this up I link them this thread: https://feddit.nl/post/16246531?scrollToComments=true
We are aware of Lemmy.ml power tripping and are taking actions to avoid it
