Comment on Meta explores options to charge EU users for ad-free subscriptions

MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why? Who would have the infrastructure and funds to create a free and ad-free Facebook clone that can take over the scale of the Facebook userbase? What do you think happens when donations aren’t covering your Lemmy instance by a wide margin?

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• newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doubt

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  • 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Considering we're already on an ad-free Reddit clone?

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    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which clearly isn’t as big and mainstream as Reddit

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      • 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Reddit was around for a long time as a competitor to Digg before the latter shot itself in the ass. Reddit is still in the 'fuck around' phase with a hint of 'find out'.

        Rome wasn't built in a day.

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We’ve got one that is orders of magnitude smaller and has no where near the number or quality of communities as Reddit.

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    • r00ty@kbin.life ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And that there's already federated Facebookesque software out there. I've not looked into it, mind you. I don't think there's a market much for Facebook replacements. Most people able to know about a federated equivalent probably don't want to be on Facebook, and if they're on it at all are just there to interact with the few holdouts that insist on remaining there and are secretly hoping it self-destructs.

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