I think this sums it up very concisely. It's not bad to get paid, but not a great strategy to do it in a way that alienates your customers and content creators, charging for what you already gave away for free.
I feel like I should go back to my old subs and start linking to kbin equivalents. Kbin is the first alternative that actually feels like it could succeed and is simple enough to get into and understand.
Hello fellow refugees, first comment here on kbin. I was a seldom commenter in the old country, more of a lurker. But because we need to up the content I'm going to try to be more active here and on lemmy, too. Cheers!
~11 year Redditor here. Trying to learn the ropes. Hoping this actually takes off and can replace what Reddit has become. My main concern right now is over content persistence across instances and how we can prevent the loss of Magazines, threads, posts, and data when inevitably some instances fail.
Read the writing on the wall, started looking into options when the API & ama debacles occurred, and ended up here. Hope for kbin to improve in the coming days, particularly with speed. Work from home, so desktop old.reddit with adblocker still works, but that's surely going away and with it, me. Can't stand ads anywhere anymore and sail the seven seas. High hopes for kbin!
Yeah, I was wondering if anyone else was seeing that... I've had at least a couple a day for the last week or so. I've always been a RiF user but I had the official app installed just for occasional things... having stupid bot followers continuously popping up in my notifications was an excellent reminder to uninstall it.
I’m giving it a try to see how it goes. I only recently started using Reddit (I had a Reddit account for years but only really got into using Reddit after Elon started mucking up twitter, only for a greedy CEO to start mucking it up, too). Here’s hoping kbin picks up and grows!
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