In order for lemmy (or any alternative) to really take off, efforts need to be made to mass migrate content. The biggest inhibitor of adoption is the lack of communities, and the user submitted info backing them. Not only would it be beneficial for alternatives to have this on their servers, efforts should be made to index and back up the mountain of how to and general hyper specific sub reddit information for the good of society. The world already lost so much during the last purge of users comments and posts, further enshitification of reddit will only lead to more getting lost. Are any groups working to scrape all (or the most important data) from reddit and break it out in a searchable format here?
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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How is this new? Reddit gold gave you access to the subreddit that only gold members could access. It didn't have anything good in it as everyone would rather have a larger reach.
If he intends to convert an existing sub to it, he will quickly find how much people are happy to more to a new sub.
Lemmy can expect some inbound traffic
Get fuuuuuuucked, Reddit
I almost wish Elon would buy it, so he can "manage" it like he did Twitter
Its never been a better time to ignore reddit
One could argue they already did that with Reddit Gold and /r/Lounge.
The lounge is trash content anyways.
great, hopefully more people leave the sinking ship
Man I kinda thought they had already hit enshittification bottom. And then they bring out the backhoe and dynamite.
Please reddit, make more bad decisions faster so people can overcome switching costs finally
I can't imagine what sub-reddits they think people would willingly participate in that are paid-only. Decreasing visibility and potential participation group automatically makes those worse in most cases.
Second influx to the Fediverse?