I agree, reddit got too big to be fun. That said lemmy still needs to get bigger in order for communities to actually thrive.
Who was this again? I don't even remember this character!
I like the one about sex with men! Something like "when I was young, I had lots of sex in muddy fields. A man might have slipped in there at some point"
They got 70m users in a few days. Mastodon has a few million after a year. I don't think Meta cares about us at all!
You wouldn't trade 1 year of your life for nearly 4 million dollars?
I'm not refusing to "get" anything, this is just a well-worn argument that's been tested. Yes, there will be people who scroll past but the net outcome is still more clicks into the website. Literally the same thing has happened in other countries. Spain tried to do the same thing and lobbied the government to enact a very similar law, Google news pulled out, and then the news organizations started seeing drops in their revenues and they had to persuade the government to reverse decisions. What do you think is going to happen here? In the end everything will go back to the way it was, except some lobbyists and lawyers will be richer and Canadians/Australians will be inconvenienced by having one less news aggregator to use for a period of time.
I personally just sorted my comments by top scoring and manually changed some of my top comments to random gibberish! That doesn't get restored!
Haha what country/state is this in, if you don't mind?
The fediverse doesn't need to scale to make money, but it needs to scale to a point where there are thriving communities. One thing I loved about reddit was stumbling upon a new sun full of people talking about the most obscure shit. Lemmy still has some ways to go to get there!
Everything is a subscription model now. You wanna hear a song on Spotify, same deal
Nobody's ever gonna have an accurate answer.