https://xkcd.com/37/

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, the moment paying for Lemmy becomes commonplace, is the moment financial interests would ruin everything. A donation model makes more sense.

There's a reason I donate to my instance. It's not a lot, but it's something that helps.

The little up down buttons are a form of user moderation.

Im personally a server admin on db0 and tbh I just sorta do it in my free time, I don't personally think it needs to be monitized. Some funding for server costs is fine but that's about it.

*phew* Well, good thing I don't need your sympathy. :D

Fact is, Reddit is still a hugely-useful place for me, so I have one foot still wedging that door open.

ICE Agents of the United Posts of Reddit

Yep, i got perma banned for bullshit. Tried to question it and was simply told the ban was upheld. Fuck reddit mods.

Nothing OP said indicated he thought Reddit was the only place that did that.

Not exactly sure what you missed or what your point is supposed to be.

The same would be true of any ad platform. I hate Facebook for all the ills it's caused society and it pisses me off that my breakfast cereal is slightly more expensive because of Zuckerberg's compensation package too.

But Facebook, et al. aren't being discussed here. Reddit is.

Even if I stay off the internet completely, a portion of the money I spend STILL goes in their pocket, and the only way to prevent it is to spend hours exhaustively researching every product I buy to find the one or two alternatives out of hundreds of others that don't feed into the system somehow. And even if product A doesn't buy ads on these platforms, the place I shop for it probably does. If I can't buy direct, as is the case with so many purchases, all that time and research are robbed of any real impact by the fact that my closest retail outlet spends millions on targeted Internet ads.

But it's not really about the money though, it's about where it's going.

In an alternate timeline, Spez, Zuck, and the rest are decent human beings with a functioning conscience and use their platforms for the common good. I don't mind those versions of them getting a piece of my alternate self's dollar. But I don't live in that universe.

So, because I'm stuck here, every single one of these modern-day Prometheus wannabe, god-complex, techbro shitheads can kiss my hairy ass.

Go fuck spez, spez fucker.

That doesn't make them wrong, it just proves the companies are even worse than was originally implied cause they do this same scumfuckery all over the place. Congratulations, you played yourself.

My big problem is that Lemmy lacks sizable niche communities right now. The big topics get foot traffic, but the small stuff struggles.

I have found on Lemmy that you simply need to ask the questions to get the answers you want. While the user count may not be as high as on reddit, people here are way more active, and most of the commenters I've seen (especially in the tech communities) seem wicked smart and know what they are talking about.

We don't have the massive backlog of posts with the same questions asked over and over again on every topic, but that doesn't mean the knowledge isn't here. Engage, make posts, ask questions! We'll get there.

I know people hate ai, but honestly Linux questions especially the low hanging fruit is perfectly answered by chat gtp etc.

Part of the reason I switched was exactly because I didn't have to google 10 different forums and could just ask for the answers. And you can keep asking clarifying questions to get more detail.

Yes, yours alone

Oof, the projection is strong with this one 🤭

Because it takes organization to get everyone to strike, especially when a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. This is why corporations are also very anti-union. It’s how that organization happens. It’s how we got a 5-day work week!

That was after he gave the head mod of the sub an award for the traffic it was bringing the site. Steve Huffman was explicitly aware of the jailbait sub before and after being made a moderator of it. He is best case scenario a pedophile sympathizer.

He owned the website. He controlled it completely. He wasn’t powerless to stop them from making him a mod (which he remained for a long time, even when people pointed it out publicly) and he wasn’t powerless to remove the literal child porn subreddit before it became a national news story.

I don’t know if he is personally. I do know they were handing out physical trophies to people who made communities that made them money, including people posting underage girls.

Oh, and also I got banned for saying we need harsher penalties for people who harm children. Probably bot flagged, but upheld in a review.

He may not be one, but Reddit generally stands with pedophiles, and opposes people who stand against them. And historically have done.

What's your method? BB under the screw on cap?

I know that's a funny bit of trivia to bring up, but the actual reason that was the case is because once upon a time the mod of a Subreddit could add other users as mods without needing them to accept. Someone added his account as a mod and the dude likely didn't even notice. He probably has some assistant running his account.

Reddit has turned into a dumpster fire, and that dude is like all the other greedy billionaires, but I don't think it's necessary to perpetuate false facts.

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