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So what corners have redditors gathered to during the blackout? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by GunnarRunnar@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes... I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I'm missing?

I ask because I haven't felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on... But there might be other alternatives I haven't looked at that are worth that look.

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[–] jeebus@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (11 children)

After reddit my needs from a social book marking website are simple:

Completely open source
Moderators can be recalled by the communities they mod.
Not for profit (ads are not the primary source of funding)

The internet needs to have something like reddit as core infrastructure. A digital public square. This requirement is incompatible with profit motive. This is why time and time again social media sites fail.

[–] nightauthor@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As far as funding goes, Diaspora (Fedi facebook, I think) runs off of an ?$8? a year model.

[–] parrot-party@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not unreasonable pricing. The estimate I saw for reddit is about 30 cents a year per user is their current take. Would I have paid $5 a year for ad free access? You bet your ass I would, but it wouldn't be nearly greedy enough for Reddit.

[–] BeHereNow@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Once I get my bearings and decide where I'm going to be hosted (bouncing between beehaw, here and Lemmy) I'll be contributing regularly. I'm happy to pay when I know It's going for something like this, not to make a creeper into a billionaire.

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