Is he scraping the barrel or just short of loose change?
Gay, autistic and pissed off at Reddit. Let’s see how things go here.
Is he scraping the barrel or just short of loose change?
I get that, but it is irrational. They can plan such a thing, esp. when they do it in concord consort. Just prepopulate the new lemmy communities with some content, ask some regulars/power-posters to become active first. Then setup a site that simplifies the signing-up tot lemmy/kbin and make a big announcement before you abandon reddit. Sure, at first the amount of people will decline. But as Reddit will have problems assigning new mods to all those big subreddits the quality over there will go down further. It won’t be an easy or even fast switch, but sometimes it’s best to just start over.
I just don’t understand why mods form big, popular subreddits don’t switch over to lemmy/kbin/whatever? If it is sunk cost fallacy that is irrational. They have a big following, all they have to do is say “hey guys, we are moving to another site. Go <here> to sign up.” If it is because (as some people suggest, not me) they are power-hungry mods and fear losing that power, it is also irrelevant since they can host their own instance and have all the power they want. If they could organize a blackout, surely they can organize an exodus? What am I missing?
I have trouble wrapping my mind around the fact the is some sort of market value to be had by paying 42,000 per month to twitter. Edit: by “market value” I mean…imagine the amount of people that could sustain in their basic needs. How does this help anyone…I’m probably just dense.
Personally I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all solution. Each problem needs a different approach. We need to figure out how to have all these systems work in tandem.