They're for using power and lies to hurt people. Actually that's pretty much what they've always been about. Even if you read stuff from the 1800s it's the same pitches by the same general group of people.
Yes. Ads don't pay that much anyway, Reddit makes something like $10 per user per year. That means that even with a $1 subscription per user they'd be ahead. It's the same for Youtube celebrities, they make their money from merchandise, Patreon and sponsorship deals, Youtube pays only a few dollars per thousand views even in ideal circumstances, even if a video has millions of views, you might only make a few thousand off it, and how many million view videos can a person realistically make?
We could probably replace the entire ad industry with something like $10 monthly divided among whichever sites we want to support.
Also, I get the argument that some people can't afford $10 because of where they are, but then the ads being served to those people aren't bringing any money in either, so you can adjust the cost downward.
There are paid search engines like Kagi and at this point I block domains that seem to be SEO blog spam. Kagi makes money off subscriptions, not ads, and they let you block whichever domains you want. That's the future, a federated internet where people pay to support the sites they want directly.
Lol. I mean, yeah, lol. Stack Overflow was always pretentious and a massive pain to actually use yourself. Now they're throwing a tantrum and disabling archiving exports? Zero pity. I bet the archive is effectively zero maintenance and costs them nothing to run.
EDIT: It gets worse the more I read. "Profit off the work of the community", what, you're the ones doing that. The "community" wants their answers out in the world, they just want to help people, SO is the one using it to make money. This is enraging.
EDIT2: The very final comment is a link to a duplicate. Very SO.
I think the big secret about Fascists is that there are always fewer of them than it appears, and they're always less committed. Their big strength is in implicit threats and intimidation.
EDIT: Am I being harsh? Maybe. But I don't think so, if you consider what Trump actually stands for it's stuff like "not paying taxes" and "not respecting people". There's no one who has good intentions for humanity that would willingly get onboard with that.
Yeah, Reddit was fun but it's time to move on. The one thing that Reddit and Twitter have proven is that the entire community could just disappear at any time if the management thinks they could improve their margin, and 97% of both of them were just tired in-jokes anyway.
A group called Patriotic Millionaires has failed to get Congress to raise their taxes or boost the minimum wage. Now they're taking their concerns about inequality to swing-state voters.
At this point I want the Billionaires to pay 5% more without raising taxes on everyone else. Taxes have been going up constantly on the poor and middle class while the ultra-rich get tax breaks, raising another tax on both at once is hardly "fair". In Australia we had another tax cut just recently on the top 10% of earners, and now there's an outcry about how hard it is to house the homeless.
Beyond the admin just deleting the account. There's the progressively more nuclear option of blocking that IP address and blocking that entire ISP from posting. There are sites that do that to control spam.
I think the biggest thing we need to figure out is how to make it sound easier than people say it is. People get too hung up on the technicalities of how the fediverse works, and they never try it out and see that it isn't as confusing as it sounds. If we could write up a simple blurb to help promote kbin to subreddit moderators...
I don't think the fediverse is that complicated. It's like email, you have one provider that can talk to other providers. Everyone "gets" how email works pretty quickly. Now, if someone isn't willing to devote literally a single minute to figuring out how it works; that's not really solvable. If someone asks how to get on the network, I just recommend they register onto whichever instance I'm on, and that's really all they need to know to get started.
EDIT: Yes, the searching really is a pain. It gets worse because a subset of people are actually opposed to indexing or scanning the network, which is going to make integrating everything much harder than it needs to be.
Right, it's not about the app. It's about the realization that they can shaft you at any time for any reason and they will if they think that Reddit can make even 0.001c per year more per user. The only reason Reddit doesn't have unskippable full screen ads is because it's not yet financially positive for them.
Conservatives are now boycotting Kellogg’s over a picture at the Tony’s (www.lgbtqnation.com)
What is a technological advancement today that you wish never existed?
For me, I would choose computer viruses.
If brands were brutally honest. What brand would have what slogan?
Just wondering...
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (www.theverge.com)
A Reddit result in Google might take you to a private page now
Revolt, free and open-source alternative to Discord, has hit 100,000 registered users. (revolt.chat)
Miami prepared for 50,000 Trump supporters to demonstrate against his indictment. CNN is reporting 20 have shown up so far. 20. (twitter.com)
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ (www.theverge.com)
Spez, and Reddit as a whole is basically counting on most subreddits opening back up tomorrow after the 48-hour period....
These millionaires want to tax the rich, and they're lobbying working-class voters (www.npr.org)
A group called Patriotic Millionaires has failed to get Congress to raise their taxes or boost the minimum wage. Now they're taking their concerns about inequality to swing-state voters.
Aaand... We have our first spam/bot!
Don't really know what the right way to call it is, but someone/some bot is spamming this post everywhere, even in the comments sections:...
How can we smooth out the migration and help promote kbin/lemmy to subreddits and redditors?
I think the biggest thing we need to figure out is how to make it sound easier than people say it is. People get too hung up on the technicalities of how the fediverse works, and they never try it out and see that it isn't as confusing as it sounds. If we could write up a simple blurb to help promote kbin to subreddit moderators...
Reddark - An open source website to watch subreddits going dark (reddark.untone.uk)
Looks like someone threw up a tracker checking on subreddit going dark. Live status looks interesting....
Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO (www.theverge.com)
A lot of Reddit will go dark soon in protest of API changes