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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Welcome!
The fediverse situation has been improved a lot since the first API migration, hope you enjoy it here!
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Lemmy can expect some inbound traffic
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Is there anywhere I can find a complete scrape of Reddit threads and comments from before the 3rd party app apocalypse? There was a lot of useful info shared on there, but I don't want anything to do with what that site has become. I'm happy just to CTRL+F a big dataset. It'll probably still work better than either Reddit or Google does nowadays. Without media I imagine I could fit it somewhere.
Also, Spez is a greedy little pig boy.
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Hi, I think I’m doing this right. Just joined Lemmy lol because of this. Can people see my comment?
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Yes! Welcome to the fediverse
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Wild that that was almost 2 years ago now..
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Risk vs reward. I could see reddit swinging either way depending on which they think smells like more money.
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Welcome!
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Same bromo, finally felt like it was time. So many good memories on Reddit for me over the last 14 years but finally felt like it was the right move to no longer give it my attention!
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Fuck Spez
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As much as we'd like to joke about the sudden influx of new Lemmy users that will result from this lets all be real, it will be a few new users. Most Reddit users will accept whatever is thrown at them from that company while crying about it on Reddit. I don't know what the phenomena is but it seems that most people would rather stay on the bad platform than try something new and slightly different. I'm cool with that, I like niche platforms.
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So, what's the stage after "enshitification"? "Enspezed?"
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One of us!
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The api shit they pulled is why i left and never went back
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I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure greedy pigboy is doing that. Everything changes.
It won't be what it was, and the grift will grow be off the charts, but I think it will evolve into a mix of what it was and grifters grifting. Just delineated by subreddit.
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One of us!
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Same. I left when it was announced.
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Can't wait to see the mental gymnastics subreddit moderators will perform to defend this!
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There are some instances where Reddit is still a great source of information just due to the sheer size of the community. But there's a lot more shit to wade through after the exodus a couple years back. I haven't signed back in for years.
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watch them lock old reddit behind a paywall just because it's the best part about reddit
