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[โ€“] Mynameisnotdoug@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't those channels just randos reading Reddit posts for views? They're not officially tied to the subreddit or anything.

Which is to say, be the change you want to see.

[โ€“] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, a ton of people have tried their hand at turning Askreddit into videos. It's a genre. I've watched a few of them because Askreddit is interesting and having this curated experience is even better.

However, as always with YouTube, if it's easy to do then a lot of people are already doing it, so there's a lot of channels doing this and most of them don't go anywhere. A lot of times you can tell the process is as automated as possible.

The same thing will be done with Asklemmy when there's enough content to support a channel

[โ€“] uhauljoe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly, I don't think we really have any say in whether that happens.

Those channels are just random people trying to monetize content people post for free. Considering that, I personally hope we don't see any of those channels pop up for lemmy, because I feel like the entire point of lemmy is to move away from monetizing the internet, so if people start monetizing content on here, I feel like it could influence the type or quality of content posted, and then we just become another reddit.

and i feel like lemmy could be a better place than reddit. but not if monetization starts creeping in.