I've said once and I'll say it again. Either the information on your site is free to all or to none. You can't have some people/entities pay and some not!
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2024
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You can. We didn't need to like it but they can. Besides, isn't that how many magazines work? Pay for articles and such
Not really, the people who write the articles are actually employed by those magazine companies, and everyone who wants to get one, needs to pay for one.
is there even anything of value on reddit?
Reddit remains as valuable as ever. It’s amusing that you think it imploded a year ago just because a small number of users migrated here
It sort of did, thousands of useful comments were turned to gibberish, the mobile web site turned to shot, and the mobile app stopped properly working for communitys with specific content warnings.
A lot of older posts are still relevant to specific hobbies. I will look up information on paper, some guitar information, but most posts from the last two years are not worth looking at.
There is also so much regurgitated LLM shit.
An absolutely prodigious back catalog of high quality images, interviews, and explainers. A treasure trove of historical content that's been heavily indexed and participant-weighted for relevancy. And the bulk of it predates the infestation of AI, so its valuable just as sampling data of original human content for further iterative development of ChatGPT and other LLMs.
Completely. Lemmy is far too small to have the value Reddit does.
I left Reddit due to their API bullshit, but I so miss all of the hobby communities I was part of, that has like-minded members, and a plethora of resources. It's not easy to impossible to start communities such as reeftanks, homesteading, literature, bookcirclejerk, etc. on a platform as small as Lemmy. And beyond starting one, the quality and quantity will never match Reddit's because Lemmy just doesn't have the same reach.
Lemmy is great if you like Linux, like Star Trek, or are trans, but other than that, it's missing so, so many demographics that make a wholistic platform.
trans
I feel this so hard, the sheer number of openly LGBTQ+ people here really skews the demographics of the site. I'm not saying it's a problem, just saying that LGBTQ+ people are dramatically over-represented here. It's an interesting contributor to lemmy culture, and I wonder how much that impacts homogeneity here (e.g. upvotes and downvotes for certain types of content).
But yeah, it's missing a lot of demographics.
That said, I'm really into Linux (been using for >15 years), so that's cool I guess.
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Yes, absolutely. Any time I need to buy a product I don't know much about, I look for an enthusiast community with a FAQ. Most of the active, high-quality communities are on Reddit.
I would like decentralized services to replace that, but that's a slow process, if it happens at all.
the exodus must have worked if they're having to do this to shore up income.
We can be so glad we left. That placees quality has dropped so much.
Reddit is for porn and perhaps age old posts now.
I don't know if it's real or just nostalgia, but reddit is massively worse than I remember. I've gone back to nose a few times, and it feels like a ghost town, compared to what it used to be.
It was %75 shit %25 gold
It's now 90:10 which is kind of a threshold fail.
reddit is for right wing conservative astroturfing and misinformation, judging from the last time i looked at its front page.
Reddit is not even good for porn anymore. Since they banned it from r/all. You gotta find it yourself now.
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Pay for what now, it's full of bots. And disingenuous people. At that the self moderation people put themselves through to interact in that website
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lol. That’s not how any of this works.
If you have content freely and publicly accessible, it will be read freely by humans and bots.
That's kind of how search engines work, buddy.