That makes a lot of sense – when I’m buying something online I like the excitement of not knowing whether a product will cost 20 or 20,000 “dollars” based on how the scam market is doing that day lol

This doesn’t make much sense because different companies / services will have vastly different development costs associated with Linux compatibility and there wouldn’t be just one global threshold for profitability for everyone

Ya fuck star trek

Ya it’s a little concerning how quickly people shifted to posting low effort crap in bulk in order to simulate a bigger community

Ya it’s a little concerning how quickly people shifted to posting low effort crap in bulk in order to simulate a bigger community

Time to start working on burning the lemmy UI into your phone screen to cover up the reddit scars

The key is amassing a large enough audience of people who want something new, not just people who want a 1:1 replacement for reddit. There’s no way lemmy will be able to compete in content volume but I think the idea of “non corporate” social media will be attractive to people

I knew it was time to give up when it was clear that they were not only hobbling old.reddit to drive people to newer versions, but they were also hobbling new reddit to drive people to the app lol

All that may be true but that doesn’t mean there’s enough people who are motivated enough to put effort into a reddit alternative – all the reddit design updates suck for the informed user but the whole point of the updates is to keep the much, much larger casual audience hooked, and it’s yet to be seen if a reddit alternative is viable today without the casual audience. Hopefully there’s some good signs over the next few days when the blackout gets rolling