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A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] abraxas@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that Lemmy isn't as well-established as Reddit was when Digg died. There's as much of a risk that reddit will just leave a vacuum and it'll get filled... by people doing whatever Reddit demands of them. And Reddit is doing less-horrific stuff than Digg did, if only slightly.

This is sorta how it went with Facebook. I would love to see lemmy or another alternative win, but it might be difficult to dethrone reddit.

I'm in a panic because I hate reddit official and I use RiF exclusively. But I might not have any option but to learn to suffer through reddit offiical.

[โ€“] pitninja@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ultimately, it comes down to what communities you can either stand to live without and or actively work to build an alternative here. If you're happy here, it doesn't really matter what's going on over there.