That's great, blahaj is perfect for them. LGBT users are much more likely to migrate (aside from porn users lol).
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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aside from porn users
IMO, Lemmy is going to miss the boat when Reddit bans porn. When all the OnlyFans people come here to the Reddit alternative and find out that they can't post promotions and links to their own profiles and pin them, and that they probably won't be getting followers because the functionality seems to be sparsely implemented with some platforms / apps allowing it and others not; they're going to look for another platform where they'll be able to promote themselves and not just give away pictures and clips for free with nothing in return.
Had a conversation earlier that made me realise that this place kinda sucks for anyone interested in self promotion. And IMO the devs need to seriously consider this because regardless of how one feels about porn, it's something that has the potential to attract a lot more people here who might come for the porn but stay for the memes.
Following people and personal subs is a relatively new feature on Reddit. Before that, people used to create a sub for themselves and just post to it. It's possible here too.
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.
2015 : first reddit exodus. 2016: little shit spez was changing user comments. 2023: another exodus. Why are they not moving like right now? And why wondering about alternatives? There is only Lemmy left now. It's not that hard.
Also I can't see what they are talking about because "[My] request has been blocked due to a network policy."
its hard to leave anywhere youve been over a decade, permabanning me is the only reason I even saw lemmy lol
I left when they killed Apollo.
I never liked the native app, and I found lemmings to be good folk.
I think now is the most important time to ditch American social media.
They thought banning baconreader would get me to download their shit app. Little do they know I am incredibly stubborn and adversarial.
I miss baconreader 🥓😭
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Reddit will probably have to comply with project 2025 once a few more laws are implemented. reddit is obviozsly not our friend and will probably delete queer and trans related contentent.
We should and essoecially the mod teams, look into alternatives in case this happends.
Lemmy is one alternative I can think of. Although it has its problems a big advantage is that it is decentralized and there are a lot of servers that arent based in the US. It also isnt owned by anyone and is free opensource software that means that anyone can see the source code and can also fork their own project from it.
Its also best to migrate different communities onto different servers to have different domains.
idk look im not an expert I just want these communities to be awear that reddit wont be there(the queer comunities) forever"