That’s not accurate and that’s a false equivalency and you know it, man.
I hate reddit and everything but reddit is still “free” last time I checked (though the users are the product.)
We’re here because reddit screwed up alternative app devs, and it also worsened the user experience for everyone.
And the “reddit payments” are there solely to enrich some board member assholes.
Donating to Lemmy instance maintainers so they recoup some of the server costs for something they pretty much consider a hobby is definitely not the same.
I was a Redditor for 14 yrs or so never paid a penny. I left because of censorship, shadow banning, bots and shills, atroturf’d voting and manipulation of content and posts from the reddit team themselves due to bribes or whatever support they get from forign entities, how they killed all 3rd party apps, and how they use their users data and abusing their mods and subs under those mods control.
Plus reddit used to be fun. I remember thinking at the end of the day, “I’ll browse reddit until I read something that makes me laugh out hard” and withing 15-20 minutes, I was laughing my ass off.
We started coming here because we had to pay for Reddit
That’s not accurate and that’s a false equivalency and you know it, man.
I hate reddit and everything but reddit is still “free” last time I checked (though the users are the product.)
We’re here because reddit screwed up alternative app devs, and it also worsened the user experience for everyone.
And the “reddit payments” are there solely to enrich some board member assholes.
Donating to Lemmy instance maintainers so they recoup some of the server costs for something they pretty much consider a hobby is definitely not the same.
Nah. Im here because I didn’t want to pay.
But you didn’t have to pay. So…
But regardless, we’re all here.
You were never forced to pay though… And no one else is here for that (non-existent) reason.
You can’t just say “we” and then give a completely illogical reason.
YOU and only you are here because you are an idiot and thought you had to pay, no one else is part of that.
You don’t need to pay there either, so feel free to go back.
I was a Redditor for 14 yrs or so never paid a penny. I left because of censorship, shadow banning, bots and shills, atroturf’d voting and manipulation of content and posts from the reddit team themselves due to bribes or whatever support they get from forign entities, how they killed all 3rd party apps, and how they use their users data and abusing their mods and subs under those mods control.
Plus reddit used to be fun. I remember thinking at the end of the day, “I’ll browse reddit until I read something that makes me laugh out hard” and withing 15-20 minutes, I was laughing my ass off.
Nowadays it’s pure doom and gloom bullshit.
And the moon rug pull!