I’m really enjoying lemmy. I think we’ve got some growing pains in UI/UX and we’re missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn’t going to be free. Can someone with actual server experience chime in with some back of the napkin math on how expensive it would be if everyone migrated from Reddit?
Sadly I have to agree with the original point of people just wanting to click something and see kitties. The vast majority of people will just go to one of the bigger ones. “Bigger is better, they must be doing something right I guess”.
I don’t normally want to be wrong, but I do want to be very wrong here… I admit I’m cynical and just think most people are going to glaze over when someone tells them something other than a simple link to type into their browser to click and see kitties with, or just install this app and click the dancing kitty. Once they have to look at stuff to make a decision, even if it’s not life or death or of actual importance to the experience, they’ll just go back to what they’re comfortable with. We’re creatures of habit, and most people don’t like learning new routines.
My mother still pays DirecTV $150 a month to watch the same programs I’ve already set up on her Android box for less than that a year, because, survey says, “I don’t understand it”. No desire to learn it. I literally mapped all the channels to the DirecTV numbers. All you do is click the icon and scroll through the guide the exact same way you do with DirecTV, except there’s categories that’ll let you narrow down which channels you want to show up in the guide… Which is apparently the part she nopes out at, because decisions are scary. she’s also a Reddit user, and I don’t anticipate she’ll be joining us on the fedi…
But again, I hope I’m wrong. I truly do.