Well, that’s the death of the free* forum. Went from BBS to newsgroups to phpBB to Reddit, each soft-killing its predecessor. But like WalMart killing Main Street, Reddit is going to kill the free forum.
Thank goodness for Lemmy and other free* social network software.
*free with the asterisk because we know it’s not free, we are enjoying the service that others volunteer to pay for.
Lemmy will need ads to support individual servers, eventually, when they’re not attached to another org (like a server CNN would run for just outgoing news dissemination). The rest of them, with bills and needing to eat, may need to go to ads.
I support proper ads that do not get priority placement and aren’t in-your-face.
I support prioritization of profile migration so we can vote with our feet if a particular server’s ad volume and content offends our sensibilities.
But I’m just saying I fully expect some ads are gonna happen, and I hope we can prevent full enshittification when that happens.
No, it will never have ads. If the devs put ads in, it will get forked. If server admins put in ads, they will be defederated. That’s nonnegotiable if you want a free (as in libre) fediverse.
Mastodon is way bigger than Lemmy and it doesn’t need ads. Donations and subscriptions (for severs that choose that path) are enough.
I don’t want it to have ads either but bandwidth is not free and someone somewhere is paying for it.
Is the donations don’t cover the bills there are few options.
I’m sure this will turn out great (just kidding, I was using sarcasm there).
You say that but thousands if not millions will buy into it.
We’ll see. Maybe, maybe not, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they faked subscriptions just like they fake users.
Just jumped the ship at the right time. The API wars were just a preview…
Recent recruit from Reddit. Finally made the jump. Love the apps like Boost, Thunder and Voyager.
Lemmy admins, hold onto your butts
As soon as I read that I thought I’d make an account here.
Welcome! It’s weird here, but it’s great.
Same, fresh refugee here. I’ve tried mastodon before and I didn’t feel good with Fediverse, but only because I never really used Twitter. Surprisingly I only discover Reddit few weeks ago (to properly spend some time there… where was I all these years lol) I’m starting to like this fediverse though 😁
Welcome! Hope you like it here. I’m happy to see people are jumping ship despite the “it’s too complex to switch to Lemmy” false narrative.
Just gotta compare it to signing up for an email. You gotta choose a provider.
service that owes its popularity largely to its low barrier to entry signals higher barriers to entry
cool! please do.
A few years ago, everyone was wondering when Reddit would have its Digg moment
Reddit is just borderline unusable because of the API thing… The app is unusable, and Red Reader is just too bland to use.
Paywall forum, what can go wrong ?
It’s not even worth using for free
Next wave of reddit exodus coming soon…
I followed Reddit Sync to Lemmy during the API fiasco. Even then, it was better than reddit had been in years. It’s only gotten better.
Same bro, I’m still on Sync typing this to you 😄👍
What’s Reddit sync to lemmy?
Sync is an application that originally was designed to browse Reddit on Android. When Reddit destroyed 3rd party access, Sync was redesigned for Lemmy.
