Feels to me like those features have been around for at least half a decade now lol but I dunno, Reddit changed a lot in the 10+ years I used it and it's all a blur. But yeah, it still means that people would have to go backwards and lose features that they've enjoyed and made use of to promote their work.

Before Reddit implemented followers, it was largely just exhibitionists doing it for free. But times have changed and there's not a lot who are going to be doing it anymore without the expectation that they're going to gain something out of it. And more power to them IMO because why shouldn't they make money out of it.

Just want to say, I'm not particularly invested in porn exploding on this platform, if I ever feel like porn, it's not exactly hard to find anywhere. I'm just trying to think of ways that this platform will ever get more than 50k users. And more than two dozen of the same people actively posting.

I enjoy the anti-establishment sentiments here and I kinda get the "we don't need more users or people promoting themselves" talk because people have an aversion to enshittification, and rightly so. But then people here also need to choose.

Either they can have a platform where they're going to grumble over feature requests and shake their fists over the idea of more users; or they can complain about the place being 99% politics with no niche communities or no activity in their favourite subjects. But they can't do both. And as far as amateur porn goes, the game has changed since the days before OnlyFans existed.

Edit: just to add, it would also be a hell of a lot more ethical having the actual workers here instead of that bot on LemmyNSFW that steals people's posts from Reddit and takes away potential business from amateur DIY workers trying to make a living. If people are actually ok with this, then they're not a pro working class as they claim because it's directly stealing from the hands of the worker, not some giant corporation.