reddit users will use anything but lemmy lmao
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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Move back to Reddit
These large social media sites are like injecting dopamine straight into your veins. Telling someone to quit eating McDonalds and start growing vegetables is a tough pitch.
It's so weird tho that that is likely somewhat true. They think "there's nothing here, this sucks" and not "there's nothing here, so if I post it would actually be seen."
Even when I post in my completely unadvertised personal community, I get engagement. Just posting to a small/dead community could very easily stimulate life in it.
Yeah they come expecting it to be like dead communities in reddit when its closer to small good communities since your post actually gets seen and gets replies, on reddit those active large communities have the same 3 mods posting nonstop banning everyone else or a sea of posts/comments where yours get buried and gets no engagement
It's not like those kinds of niche subs are going to see tons of activity on Digg either.
It's going to be a catch-22 until we sustain stable slow growth for long enough to reach critical mass. That is, unless Reddit fucks up royally enough to trigger another exodus. Such as when they'll eventually turn off old.reddit.
We get complaints of barriers to entry but then I see digg doing this...
Someone should set up a open-entry Lemmy server, without an email requirement, but you have to pay $5 for each account you sign up with.
Yeah, he's the weirdo who keeps trying to turn Lemmy into a profit center and whining in the Fediverse subs about it.
That said, you absolutely should give your instance admins money 🤷♂️
Isn't that the cost to host an entire instance?
insane when you can install yunohost on a vps and have that all going for 5-10$ a month
Wait that’s double the cost at best. $5/mo is $60/yr, and that link above is $30/yr. It sounds like a good deal to me right? It definitely seems good if you don’t want to deal with the sysadmin portion of self hosting these services, kind of like the game server hosting companies back in the day.
Hey redditors, if you send me five bucks I'll set up your Lemmy account for you. /jk ...unless?
I really hope this isn't the end of the nice bit of growth we've seen recently.
Until the UX of Lemmy is improved, that will stay true.
I mean, I was using digg before reddit existed but I did not get any such email.
... I used digg because I was too broke to afford SomethingAwful's $10 charge.
I was also... 14? lol
Yeah, was too young and poor for SA's charge. But they had the general forum that was free. Loved that place.
lol
Lmao
I loved Something Awful and I still never paid to make an account on it. Why would I pay for something that sucked so bad it died once already?
Forums with admission fee make a sense to people discussing there. If you’re just observing then of course there’s no reason to pay but you need to wonder what was the reason you loved browsing that site.
You’re officially invited to become a part of Groundbreakers, a small group of early supporters helping shape what Digg becomes next.
Another money-grab business? Just asking.
money-grab+ai.
exit scam?
it's totally a grift.
I got the Email and would pay the price for my curiosity. I don't have a credit card though, and I'm definetly not getting one for this. Tough luck, Digg.
I would also prefer to stay anonymous and not give some social media my credentials. I did that mistake once.
HARD pass.
lol I got one today and saw the $5 part and went nope
Edit: I should've tried reading
Apparently they’re going to donate it to a community-chosen charity
Oh that's my bad for not reading the whole thing lol
… why would I want them to know my name and address? I do wonder how many takers they’ll get.
Also ur account we be linked to ur real identity cos I doubt they got an option to pay with xmr. Governments would love ur social media presence linked to ur real identity.
I'm not opposed to the idea of an entry fee. I think they could get a huge advantage in regards to the network effect if they federated. They could give local users a verified badge and ranking priority on their instance.
Who owns digg BTW? Would it be possible that they sell themselves to a nonprofit that they create?
If they play their cards right they could be the foundation that they new internet will be built upon. I dont think the Fediverse can survive/go mainstream running purely as a volunteer service. They have incredible opportunity here, do a twitter style verified priority for their local users and also get the openness, freedom, and user interaction from across the fediverse. The only concern (if they are a for profit company) is if they get big enough they threaten to kill Activpub the same way google killed xmpp.
Digg doesn't plan to federate, from what I can tell.
Digg is owned by Kevin Rose (person who made old digg) and Alexis Ohanian, the reddit co-founder.