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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That probably is the idea, to have a competitor to Patreon and OnlyFans. They should have probably mentioned that as an example before some people start thinking /r/worldnews becomes paywalled.
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yep, even from my solo instance
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We have plenty of clients tho, arctic, mlem, voyager, my favorite thunder, are all available on ios and there are more, they all get updates
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It’s crazy how everything slowly turns into shit in the end
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The energy and time I've saved not arguing on reddit is wild, I initally came here defensive and its been so nice
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great timing for them to lose both of their domains
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YouTube hasn't been replaced because adblockers still work.
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Real af, I always talked about missing old reddit and didn't realize the experience I missed was budding over here
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Its a toxic relationship, I literally could not leave, became aware of lemmy maybe two months before I left and always had the intention to make an account but put it off til I was perk banned
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the threadiverse
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Not everyone is perverted like you.
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One of the funniest consequences of the checkmark is people claiming "I didn't pay for it, Musk gave this to me!!"
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Seems like a pretty huge opportunity for Reddit. If the article mentioned it, I missed it.
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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.
