They used to be good but they're just PR now
It's the wrong solution to the problem. The problem isn't children going on the Internet and looking at porn, it's parents allowing their kids unsupervised access to anything they want from a young age and not giving them any actual guidance. I'd argue it's just as damaging sitting your child in front of an iPad with unrestricted YouTube/TikTok for hours on end.
They've been soft locking content behind a login for a while, I guess they're going for the full thing now. Very annoying
I'm honestly surprised it took them this long to start doing this. It always seemed weird that they were allowing adblock users to get away with it.
Wear your card in your sleeve like a magician
Voat was born out of several questionable subs being banned from reddit so naturally the userbase was into very questionable things. That's why they failed so hard
Yes you are the only person in the entire world who finds it creepy
True, but the amount of instances will probably scale too. You can have premium instances that cost a monthly fee, ones that solicit donations, maybe ones that run ads. But you'll also always have the passion project instances being ran for a specific community out of the kindness of someone's heart.
Everything needs to generate some sort of value - I imagine a lemmy instance would generate value for you in the form of learning, or maybe the sense of accomplishment from maintaining a community. That differs from how centralised social media generates value in the form of data or money which is usually at odds with the userbase.
Reddit is a VC backed startup so this was always going to happen. I am surprised it took so long, to be honest.
It's a drone in the shape of a classic UFO? What is the actual new technology here?
Lemmy has only existed since 2019, so it's up to you to go out there and make your own jolly rancher, swamps of degobah and colby 2012 stories... well maybe not that last one