I want to switch aswell, but what is to stop bigger servers from doing the same on Lemmy?
Also where can I find the best instance for each of the Reddit equivalent? For instance I want wall street bets, where is the most active instance of that?
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How about instead of paywalling. They just sort of concrete wall the entire site then leave it there too rot for all of eternity?
Why "some"? It should be "all". Select the subs you want to subscribe to and get billed monthly.
I don't see what could go wrong.
been telling everyone on the reddit post about this to ditch reddit for lemmy. this could be a really good thing for this platform
I am going to try to revive some of the dead subs in here with posts and engagement.
Lol glad to move to lemmy
Bye reddit, it was fun while it lasted. Comments like this from out of touch ceos make me stop using the product. Same reason I canceled spotify after years of being a subscribing customer to move to Tidal
If you're gonna spend money to post on a forum, might as well just sign up for Something Awful. Or pay for access to Usenet if you don't get free access from your ISP.
Gave me the excuse to check this out. Makes me sad to kill my 11 year old Reddit account, but "needs must when the devil vomits in your kettle" as they say.
Go ahead. Only the occasional link brings me to reddit these days and I will treat his paywall just like all the others. By closing the tab and moving on.
Enshitification is inevitable
Morals aside, this wouldn't work from a business perspective.
You might have to pay the moderators, God forbid.
TO ANY LEMMY NEW USER: Welcome! Beside the search bar, you can use this link to find various communities on the Fediverse -
Reddit is a media company now, they're not a community. Tons and tons of ads, thin skinned moderators with God complexes running completely out of control, and they now have platform profit responsibility.
Will cost them - this is a significant change to, by definition, some of their most popular content. Many people go to Reddit purely to find non-paywalled versions of content.
I don't even get how this would work. If you paywalled, say, /r/gaming, could you just make a new community called /r/freegaming? And do the moderators get paid for the communities they created?
It all feels really half-baked and a desperate plea for money from investors when the money well is drying up.
There's probably something in the terms of use that prohibits that.
there's dozens of gaming subreddits already though. like truegaming or something else. i don't think many existing subreddits will do this. i do think nsfw creators will paywall their posts
however if reddit goes that route i hope OF sues apple/google. I don't like how some nsfw apps like reddit or x are allowed but others aren't
Post submitters would have to get a cut to encourage them to post OC on the pay subs and file takedowns if anyone else reposted their content elsewhere. I think it could only work for single user subs.
My first thought was that they are trying to be a new onlyfans.
Elon comes to make Reddit worse
Then they'll skate around that by implementing a paywall for creating new subs.
Why I'm here (first comment yay)
While it isn't great, because one of the biggest issues with social media is the users, its design, and philosophy, are way ahead. Welcome.
After seeing this article on Reddit, that’s what made me finally jump ship and join in here. It’s been nice so far.
Reddit is hardly even the same site it used to be. Especially with bots taking over. And I just don’t think it makes sense to make people pay for what was meant to be a user-generated experience. We’ve sadly come a long way from the narwhal baconing at midnight.
But here’s to new beginnings!
Same joined Lemmy yesterday.
Me too! I just made an account. I’m discovering Lemmy right now. This is my very first reply. Hello Lemmy world!
Welcome to the Fediverse! I think you'll like it here.
Much like you I saw this article on my reddit feed today, googled 'reddit alternatives, and ended up here.
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