You wouldn't trade 1 year of your life for nearly 4 million dollars?
I'm not refusing to "get" anything, this is just a well-worn argument that's been tested. Yes, there will be people who scroll past but the net outcome is still more clicks into the website. Literally the same thing has happened in other countries. Spain tried to do the same thing and lobbied the government to enact a very similar law, Google news pulled out, and then the news organizations started seeing drops in their revenues and they had to persuade the government to reverse decisions. What do you think is going to happen here? In the end everything will go back to the way it was, except some lobbyists and lawyers will be richer and Canadians/Australians will be inconvenienced by having one less news aggregator to use for a period of time.
I personally just sorted my comments by top scoring and manually changed some of my top comments to random gibberish! That doesn't get restored!
The fediverse doesn't need to scale to make money, but it needs to scale to a point where there are thriving communities. One thing I loved about reddit was stumbling upon a new sun full of people talking about the most obscure shit. Lemmy still has some ways to go to get there!
Everything is a subscription model now. You wanna hear a song on Spotify, same deal
Given all the antics by the company and the despicable behavior by spez and his henchmen, my position on reddit has gone from "I'll use it much less now that my mobile app is gone and I only have desktop access" to "I will go out of my way to avoid providing value to the company even if it inconveniences me".
I just spent the better part of 5 hours yesterday manually deleting all my top comments from reddit. They can revoke edits made by pushshift, but they won't be able to figure out which manual edits to revoke. I used to give out technical advice on reddit and I used to get messages thanking me for posts I made years ago. Now all of those posts are gone.
Gotta love the narrative here. "what's the bare minimum we can do to keep the peasants from revolting?"
All the news about reddit over the last few days have made me realise that I no longer personally care.
I mean it's still funny to read about the way subs are protesting, but I haven't been on the site since the protests, and now I don't get angry about the changes anymore. It's a sign that I've finally kicked reddit out of my life after more than a decade on the platform.
Huh? Showing news results on search is beneficial for the news sites, it pulls in viewers. Search engines have never paid someone for the privilege of linking to them lol.
What kind of authoritarian power move is this? Lol
They got 70m users in a few days. Mastodon has a few million after a year. I don't think Meta cares about us at all!