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imagine charging for displaying content you didn’t even make.
the balls are astounding, but this ain’t gonna go well for them.
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Submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Nima@leminal.space 4 months ago
JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I disagree. I hate the decisions they make and personally, along with you, I think it’s idiotic.
But while I hate on them, they will get away with it. Theyre not stupid. The decisions don’t align with its users but it will still work.
Look at netflix raising prices for arguably content. Working for them.
Reddit; Charging for the API essentially killing almost all 3rd party apps. Not sure the effect but reddit doesn’t seem to really be hurting. Users want to move but reddit is just too good. I even still use it because the user content on there is amazing. I try to ask all my questions/have discussions on lemmy, but I’m one person. Reddit has infinity more always contributing. I think the management sucks, but the platform just isn’t fully rivaled yet so they can keep milking their audience.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Netflix was always a paid service though. I don’t know if people will want to pay for something they’ve had for free for over a decade, especially if the free subreddits will still exist.
I’d also imagine that for any paid subreddit, someone will make a free version with similar content.
samus12345@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I agree. It costs them almost nothing to implement and when you have a big enough userbase there are always rubes who will pay for anything you charge for.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I disagree that Reddit has good content but even bad content is better than no content for communities that haven’t been built here yet
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Reddit; Charging for the API essentially killing almost all 3rd party apps.
The secret is they made it easy to bypass, the API still works if you moderate any subreddit, even if it’s one you just made. They made it just difficult enough to move the 99% of normie users to their own app.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
This is probably targeting a adult content creators, aka trying to get a finger in onlyfans’ pie
treadful@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
If the paid subreddits pay out to the creators, that seems like an okay feature. Also dipping into the Patreon market.
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah that’s pretty much the only real market I can see for this.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 months ago
Not to mention that paywalled content being moderated by unpaid volunteers.
Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
And commented and reposted by bots.
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Some mods would do it. I don’t know why, but they would.
hansolo@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It’s like using the failed Reddit Gold lounge as a business model. A sub of awkward dudes that paid to be there and random people passing through and not sure WTF is going on with the awkward party.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Have they stopped that now? I remember being in it at one point. I didn’t post and didn’t really look at it
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I’m going to frame your comment and sell it!
danc4498@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was thinking a profit sharing concept for the people running the sub would make sense. I’m sure that’s not what it is though.
sphxre@ani.social 4 months ago
Hi, I think I’m doing this right. Just joined Lemmy lol because of this.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes! Welcome to the fediverse
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
One of us!
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Welcome!
Sho@lemmy.world 4 months ago
One of us!
RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Happy cake 🎂 day!
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hi mate
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Nope, cannot see this.
😉
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 4 months ago
si
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 4 months ago
yep, even from my solo instance
robbinhood@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same here.
TrumpetX@programming.dev 4 months ago
hunter2
LeanSock@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
One of us!
Grassgrowz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
yes we can :) welcome!
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Not only do I see your comment, it’s not yet buried even 5 days after you’ve made it.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Awwww yeaaah. Welcome friend, stay a while
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Good news for Lemmynites.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bad news is that we’re still not setup for Reddit-level user counts. Lemmy needs much better moderation tools to allow communities to stay on top of reports.
Hopefully a lot of new users will also produce new people contributing to Lemmy. Or, maybe some people will form some sort of nonprofit that allows dedicated designers and engineers to continually work on Lemmy. When people contribute as a side gig, most give up after a few months. Most of the Lemmy clients that were build during the Reddit APIocalypse are no longer alive.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 4 months ago
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
MrNesser@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lemmites?
bromosapiens@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I just left, deleted my account of 15ish years tonight, no regrets. Happy to be here.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Ok tidy up this place. We have visitors coming soon.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s why I left. I regret nothing.
Brown_dude69@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just came to lemmy again after learning this shit!! mass exodus coming soon
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You’re gonna pay the mods then, right?
Right?
sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’m surprised they aren’t talking about subscriber subreddits. With the amount of porn/OnlyFans posts, I would have thought they could position Reddit as a friendly and familiar OF alternative.
five82@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I haven’t had an account since the Apollo purge but fuck Spez.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Do it, please, the subreddits need to migrate here
Toribor@corndog.social 4 months ago
I’m not on Reddit much these days but every time I am and I see threads with people discussing these Reddit policy changes Lemmy gets mentioned. Usually with people complaining they already tried or couldn’t figure it out or that it isn’t good enough…
I think as the enshittification marches on they’ll be some more exodus from Reddit but generally I think everyone is just getting used to all online social media being a total corporate disaster.
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Digg: “join us reddit…”
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Another day of thanking my past self for leaving
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
watch them lock old reddit behind a paywall just because it’s the best part about reddit
eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Can’t wait to see the mental gymnastics subreddit moderators will perform to defend this!
CastorSulMush@lemmy.world 4 months ago
More ads? There’s already a bunch of them mixed with posts and comments. What more, force people to watch an ad before loading pages?
ekZepp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Absaroka@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Late this fall, after all of the nonsense on Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram I asked myself a very simple question.
“Is the reason I joined these sites still valid? What do I actually enjoy about social media these days?”
The answer was basically “rose colored glasses.”
I joined **Reddit **after the ‘deaths’ of Slashdot and Digg. It became my source to get new and interesting content I probably wouldn’t have found otherwise. Now it’s bots arguing with bots and 75+% of the content is just recycled shit by people trying to make money. Much of the rest is from people trying to manipulate you.
Delete.
I joined Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family - especially those I don’t see often. Over time, the amount of good content from people I knew dropped to maybe 25% of my feed. Most of it now is AI-generated bullshit or more of the same recycled content you see on Reddit.
Delete.
I joined Instagram to share some of my landscape photos and view some of the great photos some close friends were sharing. Over time that became less and less. Queue the recycled and AI-bullshit content.
Delete.
So, I challenge everybody to ask themselves do they actually enjoy social media? Do these sites actually add value to your life and in any way remain true to their promise when you joined them so many moons ago. Are you actually making any connections with people? The ‘social’ in ‘social’ media? Or just watching people talk at each other, not to each other.
After answering those questions, the answer about whether to stick around is pretty clear.
rando@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Hopefully this will drive even more users to switch over. I find myself finding Reddit less useful as time passes by
njordomir@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Man this reddit site sounds awful
needthosepylons@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What’s Reddit? A clone of Lemmy?
tiaxcrystal@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That’s why I’m here. Just made an account. Sick of everything being a goddamn subscription.
HairTransplants@lemmy.world 4 months ago
i hope there is a mass migration here
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
So, what’s the stage after “enshitification”? “Enspezed?”
wirebeads@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Looks like I dropped Reddit at just the right time.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
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.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m glad I jumped ship back during the ban on 3rd party apps. That was it for me.
MrVilliam@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Same. I had even paid for the paid tier of my 3rd party app because it was such a good value to me that I wanted the devs to have some of my money. Thanks to that app, I was on the site more and pretty much never via computer anymore.
I think it was for the best though. Quality over quantity here. I find it to be far less toxic on Lemmy overall. It’s like how people tend to be nicer in a small town because you know you’re gonna run into these people over and over again, but the big city you came from had more variety in stuff to check out. Definitely a trade-off, but I think it’s worth it to have this much more pleasant space that isn’t so packed with content as to be addictive. Good vibes.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I’ve gone back to reddit a few times from searches, and after spending time away it is really apparent how negative most of the comments over there are.
For example, anytime someone asks for help, someone always has to show up and get angry that they didn’t search instead of asking. Then a third person shows up and says that a search brought them to this thread… and no one ever answers the question. Thanks reddit!
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Its improving over time, I think it’ll find a decent grove as more communities pop up. I find the comment sections really engaging too I’ve had some solid conversations over here.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yep. When RIF was killed, I closed that door immediately (was not easy). It was to be expected though, I think. Once a site reaches critical mass, money interests enter the picture and greed can always screw up a good thing. It’s a shame.
samus12345@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I don’t even use any apps and was just planning on boycotting it for a few days in solidarity. Then Greedy Little Pigboy made his statement about how everyone will come crawling back and that was that.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh i didn’t even hear about that. Fuck spez.
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is the actual reason for me too. I’m making a point to never visit that website again.
There’s exceptions like when searching for troubleshooting help and a relevant result happens to be on Reddit, but otherwise I avoid it as much as possible.
kernelle@0d.gs 4 months ago
Same, my mouth dropped reading the article.
Obligatory fuck spez
mac@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Wild that that was almost 2 years ago now…
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
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.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s the truth. It was tone deafness, a lack of responsiveness, and a clear lack of principles that made me leave during that.
Strider@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Me too.
Man people really like taking a beating.