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Every reddit shock, more people register on lemmy, as it's the only valid alternative, then around 10-30% of those stick around. The more reddit enshittifies, the more shocks it will experience until a tipping point is reached.
The latest one only got weakened by reddit panicking and rolling back their "bug". My suspicion is the next time they will try to enforce it, they will first make sure all lemmy links are banned.
They cant ban them all more will always pop up, fediverse Is like hydra
I think you're probably right about that. I've always said the next big migration will be when they turn off old.reddit, but perhaps they'll be wise enough to blanket ban links to all the largest Lemmy instances by that point.
Lemmy really needs to buy ads on Google. I know....Google is just awful.
But doing a search for "reddit alternatives", the first result is reddit.
I'd be willing to chip in some money to get that going.
Who is 'lemmy' though. Without someone making money there is no motivation to do that.
All of the biggest instances could take turns running ads for themselves lol
If they have extra money spend some on ads? Prob better to improve seo somehow
All that does is cost them money for the adds, then increase their running costs by adding users.
It's good for the community, but not great for them.
For a while I was reading and posting on Lemmy, but still going over to check things out on Reddit (without an account) because Lemmy just wasn't getting enough traffic to keep interesting posts popping up. I'm having to do that less and less these days.
I was doing that for the first two weeks here and now I dont open it most days
Honestly I never have to do it unless I'm extraordinarily bored and have nothing better to do.
The only link that doesn't work for me is lemmy.world.
Is that link (lemmy.world) banned reddit wide?
They are helping us load balance.
Isn’t .world the most populous instance? Hmm…
This is interesting. I get the impression that some admin/mods truly don’t understand how the Fediverse operates. They ban one (or a few) instance name(s), but there are so many more that they might not even recognize as Lemmy links, which get past the radar.
At the same time, there are fears here that .world could become disproportionately powerful compared to other instances, due to its high user count.
So in a way, Reddit blocking traffic to .world while permitting links to other instances can benefit us all. Smaller instances gain users, which is an important step toward balancing things out and keeping any one instance from becoming too powerful. Thanks, Reddit!
(I recognize the irony of saying this while having a .world account. I wasn’t aware of its standing in Lemmy when I made it. I am also still learning the Fediverse myself and don’t know how to transfer my account to another instance yet.)
I just read another comment (not sure if in this thread or another) saying that lemmy.world and lemmy.ml links are banned on Reddit. No idea if it's really true or not though.
Yeah, it either errors out or hides your comment if you link it. Other instances are fine (excpet for .ml)
Oh ok I'm not alone, I couldn't understand why I couldn't suscribe to the community from lemmy.worl