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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Welcome! Don’t take this wrong, but why didn’t you come sooner? Reddit has had paywalls for as long as I can remember. r/TheLounge is an example of a famous one but any subreddit could enable restricting themselves to premium only.

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inbeesee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s actually new information to me! The news was pointing to a broader push to subscriptions for subreddits site wide. Definitely not doing that.

I also admit that I am deeply unhappy with reddits enshittification. I’ve been on reddit for over a decade and joined when I was in highschool. Moving was the last thing I wanted, but I’m more aware of the big-corp-monopoly we’re all suffering under. This is part of it.

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- JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I ripped the bandage off a few months before they shut down the API. I had to quit RIF cold turkey. I wanted it to be “my choice” if that makes sense. The official Reddit app just didn’t do it for me.
  
  I hope you enjoy your time here! I’ve liked it. My biggest piece of advice is to be the content you want to see. There is a lot less content here than Reddit. That’s good and bad. Good because you get bored a little easier and move on lol, but bad because it can get a little boring. It’s gotten a lot better though!
  
  The other thing, and this is just a pet peeve lol, is that the proper way to link to communities is like !community@instance. A lot of people try to do c/community which doesn’t work. If you do !community alone it will link to the local community which could totally not exist or have different rules etc.
  
  example: !programming@programming.dev
  
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  - UniversalMonk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    My biggest piece of advice is to be the content you want to see.
    
    Totally agree with this. BUT just know that for some Lemmy’s, they get suspicious pretty quick. My account is less than a month old. I found a vast whole of the kind of content I want to see, so I started posting a lot.
    
    And pretty much every day I get called variations of being a troll, spammer, trumpet and/or russian asset.
    
    Doesn’t keep me from posting, and I think it’s hilarious. But just a heads up to anyone reading. Tho this thread is old so maybe no one will. But I found this thread just now, so… lol
    
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