Every time you hear the Reddit CEO talking about how they need to become profitable, remember they raised $250m and then spent the last couple years building this: https://nft.reddit.com
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As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …
REDDIT posted a more than 20 per cent rise in revenue in 2023 versus the year before, sources familiar with the situation said, as it prepares for one of the United States’ most anticipated potential initial public offerings (IPOs).
Shitposting is what ruined reddit, which would be a great place for serious discussion if it weren't for the shitposting maniacs who just can't let good people enjoy pictures of kittens and assertions of respectable politics without lampooning them with ironic memes and foul language....
Proposing that Lemmy or Kbin could substitute for Reddit while not acknowledging that lack of search makes it impossible to find the appropriate groups in a decentralized maze of servers is very on-brand for the Mastodon crowd. #search#reddit#federated @fediverse
> We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with #SocialMedia. We formed connections and communities and friendships [but] those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.
Tech Press don’t understand the #Fediverse, so how can they understand its growth?
To hear them talk, most of them believe that #Mastodon and the Fediverse are one and the the same. Some of them go so far as to call the Fediverse the “Mastodon network”.
Which means that they don’t have a clue about what the Fediverse entails, nor how it has grown.
Case in point: between Jan-May 2023, #Misskey and its forks grew by 300,000 accounts. No one in the Tech Press reported this.
Okay, perhaps they didn’t know because the bulk of growth happened in Japan. But still, this is fairly important to know since Misskey is now responsible for generating the bulk of Fediverse content. Even so, Tech Press think the Fediverse is about Mastodon.
And now, #Lemmy and #Kbin are experiencing lots of growth, with both collectively gaining 100,000 users in a week. This is quite a noteworthy event since the #RedditMigration is part and parcel of dissension on #Reddit – a pretty major Big Social platform.
Does the Tech Media report on this? Nope. But again, that’s because they don’t understand the Fediverse nor what it entails.
Then Meta signal that a new project they’re making, #P92 (a.k.a., #Barcelona), will be joining the Fediverse. There’s even screenshots that show this app interacting with remote Fediverse servers.
But instead of reporting about how this will affect the existing Fediverse, press such as the #BBC say this is an altogether different social network than Mastodon.
That’s right! Tech Press don’t even realize P92 will be joining the Fediverse – a social network that already exists!
Is this all ridiculous? Yes.
But this is why we have to be forthright about what the Fediverse is, what it entails, and why it all matters.
"Reddit is discovering the same thing that Twitter is also discovering: when you build a service where the value is all the free content that users provide, you’re going to run into some problems when you suddenly start acting like you 'own' all that, and you feel the need to put up paywalls for access.... at some point those users are going to realize they have the power to go elsewhere."
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People who have tried both lemmy & kbin, is full text search available on these platforms? I am thinking of closing my reddit account but I am unsure which one of these to create an account on:
Dear #Reddit mods who have STILL locked their subs - now you’re just being dickheads and pissing the rest of us off. Do I really need to start my own /r/AppHookup2? This tantrum is achieving NOTHING, nor was there a way it ever could have. The site isn’t yours. Move out.
The #Reddit protests have been a disaster, blackout with an end date, some subs deciding to continue it but many just giving up, now subs that don't give up are being forced open by admins/replacing mod team, subs that open of own accord becoming shitpost subs as a "protest". Within a week or 2 people will get bored of the shitposting and go back to using the sub like normal and absolute nothing will have changed. Like Mastodon with Twitter, Lemmy has seen massive growth but Reddit has not seen a mass exodus of users.
#mastodon and the #fediverse are really cool, I’m glad so much momentum has been had, but PLEASE realize that everyone relying on it instead of individual websites for sharing info and etc is NOT any better than what’s going on with Reddit and Twitter. Info needs to be distributed through diverse outlets. Masto is far less searchable from the outside than #twitter and #reddit were anyway. Monoculture bad
KBIN APP IS IN DEVELOPMENT! It's called Kmoon (edit: it is now called Artemis) (tech.lgbt)
post by dev here...
/r/KbinMigration: This community has been banned (old.reddit.com)
This subreddit was banned due to being used for spam....
CROSSPOST: A small FAQ to hopefully help new users to kbin (updated June 11 17:00 GMT) - kbinMeta - Kilioa Kbin (kilioa.org)
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On Reddit and it’s federated rivals, Lemmy and kbin (www.jayeless.net)
As you may have heard, Reddit’s decided to pull a Twitter and start charging an extortionate amount of money for access to their previously-free API, in order to drive third-party clients like Apollo and RIF into extinction. Under Reddit’s proposed pricing, …
Reddit revenue rises 20% ahead of IPO, but it isn’t profitable yet (www.businesstimes.com.sg)
REDDIT posted a more than 20 per cent rise in revenue in 2023 versus the year before, sources familiar with the situation said, as it prepares for one of the United States’ most anticipated potential initial public offerings (IPOs).
What is this story Reddit is censoring? (www.reddit.com)
See the link for details. What story are these people talking about?
A word on reddit, blackouts, & effective protesting (Louis Rossmann) (www.youtube.com)
👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/comment/jnk4oz4/?context=3👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_ab...
OC Shitposting is Wrong
Shitposting is what ruined reddit, which would be a great place for serious discussion if it weren't for the shitposting maniacs who just can't let good people enjoy pictures of kittens and assertions of respectable politics without lampooning them with ironic memes and foul language....
BaconReader's final release announcement (www.reddit.com)
Here’s the message shown in the screenshot behind the link:...
Unpopular opinion: deleting your Reddit account is 100% justified, but mass-scrambling all of your posts and comments with an online tool is worse than leaving them as is
I might get "cancelled" for this, but hear me out:...
It's over - Sync for Reddit is offline
OC A proposal for a sane transfer of useful information trapped on Reddit
Hey all,...
Let's just check our favorite archive of banned subreddits. (old.reddit.com)