Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

  • Blastasaurus@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I like your positive spin.

    I’m just thrilled it’s decentralized. I’m so sick of being advertised at. I’m so sick of being asked for monthly subscriptions. I’m really feeling this open source vibe or however you want to label it.

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Monthly subscriptions aren’t bad - they’re the solution to removing the avalanche of ads we are inundated by. The user gets to pick and choose which services they want to use.

      One of the problems is opening up services to free users so you can keep them captured and squash competition, and at the same time push subscriptions to them via ads constantly.