Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform
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Youtube is not easily replacible.
Creating quality videos are much more difficult than memes on Reddit/Lemmy type of sites.
No content creators is gonna move because of the issue of monitization. And most couldn't care less about Youtube's enshittification. You cant say "Just use Peertube" when there are like nothing interesting to watch. It's like trying to stop watching popular Movies / TV shows because "big corp media bad". Piracy would be the best mitigation in the Movies / TV situation, and that in Youtube's situation is just using an adblocker.
In contast, Reddit/Lemmy type of sites are just strangers talking to strangers. You are moving from Stanger Group A to Stranger Group B. It's the easiest transition ever.
Not to mention, the storage for Lemmy instances is like in the GBs. Get a 1TB harddrive and you're good for a long time. A Youtube replacement? On you're gonna need PETABYTES, and all the bandwith to serve the content.
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Nope, cannot see this.
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Tbh, I didn't care about the 3rd party apps.
I just didn't like the silencing of opposition.
If they are willing to do mass censorship for benign things like a 3rd party apps protest, what's to say they wont booklick governments/corportions and censor info of horrible things that a government/corporation is doing.
It's the censorship that I was more afraid of. Besides, I always wanted a decentalized platform, but none of it had any users until June 12, 2023.
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In order for lemmy (or any alternative) to really take off, efforts need to be made to mass migrate content. The biggest inhibitor of adoption is the lack of communities, and the user submitted info backing them. Not only would it be beneficial for alternatives to have this on their servers, efforts should be made to index and back up the mountain of how to and general hyper specific sub reddit information for the good of society. The world already lost so much during the last purge of users comments and posts, further enshitification of reddit will only lead to more getting lost. Are any groups working to scrape all (or the most important data) from reddit and break it out in a searchable format here?
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What's to migrate other than your name? My reddit usage was limited to lurking so I genuinely don't know.
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Kholer, American standard, and other toilet manufacturers are scrambling to match Toto's ad popularity in "the go" ad business.
If you've changed your extractor fan recently, you might have come out of the restroom humming something new or maybe something familiar like the McDonalds jingle. But such feats of advertising have never been part of the true #2!. Things like bidet splash modulation... Lara papa pa!!! Right in the butt! Or flush ads! A display banner integrated on to the flush tank, and if you open the lid you'll get ads around the bowl and in the back of the lid.
Clorox is coming up with a brad new cleaning chemical family. If you forget to clean you'll be presented with scum in the shape of the clorox logo and the proper code and link to Amazon.
Oh yes please! Enshittify the one and only sanctuary we believed we had!
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We really need efforts made to bulk upload historical posts of value to lemmy. If done right, we could significantly expand the amount of subs and content, even if they are ghost towns initially with just the old posts from reddit. Build it and they will migrate.
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Lol I don't even pay for Movies / TV
It's not even primarily about "I don't wanna support big corp" (although, that is one of the reasons), its just the fact that I'd be broke af if I had to pay for all that entertainment.
I mean like... pay??? In this economy??? I don't even get paid enough to survive
Chexk out this community btw: [email protected] (blocked by lemmy.world instance)
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That is something that some tech savy Lemmy users could already easily do. I repost stuff from all over the web. But some systematic preservation of good old subreddits aught to be automated.
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I'm not on Reddit much these days but every time I am and I see threads with people discussing these Reddit policy changes Lemmy gets mentioned. Usually with people complaining they already tried or couldn't figure it out or that it isn't good enough...
I think as the enshittification marches on they'll be some more exodus from Reddit but generally I think everyone is just getting used to all online social media being a total corporate disaster.
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Iâm very familiar with dbzer0 and its communities
Huffman is delusional no doubt
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I just joined yesterday because of this article. Honestly I feel like Iâm using Apollo to access Reddit again. My Reddit account was 12 years old and I deleted it.
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It does not mention it and I cannot see any official statement, but that seems like a logical reason. Reddit management however is not famous for being logical so we will see.
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It does seem like a lot of ads for "3% of inventory". I can't ever see a reason to pay for a subreddit.
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Delete
Delete
Delete
Mikami Teru, is that you?
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Wave incoming
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Welcome friend.
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r/spezholedesign
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That's the truth. It was tone deafness, a lack of responsiveness, and a clear lack of principles that made me leave during that.
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