It would be funny and I'd love to see it but you KNOW spez and his butthurt bootlicking simps are petty enough to block/ban any link that goes to any address that's associated with a Lemmy instance AND instantly "permanently suspend" any account that participates.

Reddit admins even ejected their favorite agitator powermod, u/awkwardthepanda, for posting a John Oliver picture.

They are truly prepared to burn every bridge.

...

But maybe that's the point. Maybe they should be FORCED to burn every bridge and annihilate themselves in the inferno.

Somebody on here snagged the username "spez" and that brings me great joy as well

Honestly? As another user noted, it's just boring. Not nearly as much is getting posted, and the comments are reminiscent of the days when we'd scramble to write "FIRST" in the comment section. It doesn't feel conversational, if that makes sense. Like people are talking at each other, not with them. Also lots of "lol nothing changed, why was everyone making such a big deal?" But then the front page is mostly politics, shitposting, and recycled ask reddit questions. Not a monumental change, but definitely lower in quality, imo.

It's an unfortunate reality but that's probably going to have to happen. Instances can't be expected to grow and maintain on pure goodwill. Some might get by with donations but it's pretty known that Mastodon servers that couldn't support themselves on donations vanished. It's a huge ask for someone to pay money, time and effort to run a server for perpetuity. Usually you can only ask for 2 out of the 3 lol.

We already saw the original lemmynsfw get overwhelmed and just want to shut it down and hand it to someone else because they were having to put in so much work.

Hopefully because Lemmy is opt in in every sense, instance owners can do an ad setup that isn't intrusive or over bearing.

Otherwise it's just the big instances that are donation covered that stay and grow and Lemmy just becomes centralized around 5 servers or something.

If enough people call it, it costs them money, for starters.

I'd rather we all pay a few bucks to not have lemmy get infested with ads.

Well?? Tell us some of its merits at least.

I work in the digital advertising industry...reddit is pushing hard to grow it's advertising business and are being helped by major players in the industry.

I've been tracking it for a while, because I know it was foreshadowing the decline of reddit as I knew it

Yup. That was our experience too! My boss and I were both Redditors and we thought it would be cool.

Narrator: It wasn’t.

Can you post them? Name and shame.

You need to leak those emails, screw Reddit and u/spez.