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what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not trying to convince anyone to go back i promise, quite the contrary actually cause I think spez plans to just decrease the cost of the API and act like it was a bargain deal sacrifice while not solving any of the issues at all

But, when I think about it even if spez did actually listen and reverse all changes I don't think i want to go back to Reddit cause from what Ive seen Lemmy is just friendlier and less :Be Corporate Friendly: I would honestly love it if Lemmy did a project like r/place one of these days so we could see what the internet is actually like instead of what happened in 2022 (I really did enjoy what a bunch of communities did but when the mods started abusing their powers to make it corporate r/place lost so much meaning) but i am curious since i'm not going back is there anything Reddit can do to make you go back to Reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transitioning to a platform not reliant on ads.

How do you see that working? Pay for access? Pay to post? I know there's one sort of BBS called "The Well" that apparently has run since 1985 by charging monthly, now $15 a month. That's a big ask for sight unseen BBS / forum. But that's apparently what it costs to run the servers for ~ 3,000 people.

I just think that sort of thing would really really kill reddit right fast - approximately none of the normies are going to want to pay monthly for memes and harassment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you want to read the history The WELL, and other virtual communities, then Howard Rheinghold's book "The Virtual Community" is a very good read. I first read it before I even had internet access, and it completely captivated me. Talk of running The WELL on a minicomputer will certainly feel dated, though :-)