My kid really loves the 2000s Alvin and the chipmunks movies. Dave is always talking about how they need to be like normal kids and they need to plan for the future, but on a lark I looked up how long a chipmunk lives and by the third movie they'd be like 50 in chipmunk years.
I think we'll just assume whatever Gene makes them talk makes them live really long. Let's do that.
For lemmy it's been a mass exodus. I was on this part of the fediverse before all this, and it's a fundamentally different thing now than it was. There were maybe a dozen servers, most of them didn't have a whole lot going on. Now there's millions of active users on thousands of servers.
That might not be a mass exodus for reddit, but it sure is one for lemmy.
Brave is one of the only browsers on android that does decent ad blocking, but it's chrome based so it also works reasonably well on mobile sites expecting chrome.
Seems to me that monetizing karma would bring what is already sort of an echo chamber to the next level. Suddenly an unpopular take can cost you dollars and cents.
I run all the different services because I generally agree with you, but there's value in being able to choose how to interact with everything. some people really want to have new videos show up in their lemmy feed or their mastodon feed. If that's how they want to do it, they're right. Same with interacting with lemmy from mastodon -- If that's what you want to do, then you're right and it's a win for you if you can do it that way.
And thank God for that, who would want to be in touch with whatever the kids these days are into?