Imagine getting paid to post soyjak memes on Reddit lmao
The model works when you have high effort content (YT, Insta, TikTok, Yelp). The bar to get started is high, so the idea of a payout gets the ball rolling for some people. Contributing to Reddit (and Lemmy for that matter) probably doesn’t fit that bill.
It’s a good bet. Breaking habits is hard, but removing some people’s preferred way of using Reddit forces them to go cold turkey. It’s a great opportunity for all the alternatives.
I’ve posted about this before and I think a lot of people disagree, but some centralization is good. There has to be a no-thought option for when people want to join Lemmy. After they learn more about federation, they can move on to another instance.
The reason why kbin grew so fast is because for a lot of people, Kbin = kbin.social (See how “kbin” links to kbin.social on: list of alternatives on Reddit)
I believe this also explains Beehaw’s growth despite their onerous rules. When someone recommends Beehaw, they don’t need to think about which instance of Beehaw they want to join, they just go to Beehaw.
A lot of people are dogmatic about federation, but I quite frankly think that if you are going to die on the hill, don’t complain when you die.
Welcome to human nature.
It’s easy to look at Reddit or any other communities and pin the blame all the bad things on mods, admins, or whoever in charge. However, the truth is, anyone who gets in any position of power will make decisions that may not benefit the larger whole or reflect the community at large. Lemmy will deal with this, just as Reddit dealt with it (and succeeded in spite of it).
People will rarely say they want to endlessly scroll, but given the options, they’ll always choose the option that let’s them consume more content, aka doom scroll.
I think two communities can live side-by-side and even develop their own culture. With federation, someone subscribed to both essentially has no downside right? I think forcing merges would cause some issues (like, who moderates?).
Sibling, I make CRUD apps with React and Python. I don’t think it’s that dramatic lmao