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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 200 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The growth in 2025 has been staggering, ngl. And this is the kind of thing which converts from a trickle to a tsunami very quickly. It never happens with one shock. But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks. Reddit's desperate struggle for profitability practically ensures those will keep happening, so this is all inevitable at this point. The only thing that is uncertain is whether digg can recapture the fleeing masses who are not cognizant of the dangers of corporate vc-backed enshittification yet, like bluesky did to Twitter.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But a consistent amount of enshittification shocks

I think the proper term is enshittification sharts

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 56 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The user growth we're seeomg could result in an overwhelming flood of users at anytime. Which is why people should consider supporting the lemmy devs and instance admins either financially or through contributions so that the lemmy software and infrastructure is ready to handle the growth.

[–] Carrot@lemmy.today -2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This seems unrealistic in my opinion. Normal people really don't like to donate, unfortunately. I think that Lemmy needs to make it so anyone can easily self host an instance without too much fuss. Something like docker on an old laptop. I know they have docker containers for Lemmy already, but in my opinion, they aren't simple enough to set up. And there should be an option to bundle it with a wireguard VPN tunnel, so that they really don't need to fuff about with reverse proxy to browse on your phone. This way, the cost is distributed across all users. It should be that setting up a domain and port forwarding should be the largest hurdle.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago

Normal people really don’t like to donate,

I'm on a medium-small instance; if %5 of users donate a dollar a month, the hardware would likely be paid for.

If lemmy.world had %0.01 of users paying, they could probably cover their hardware, storage and network fees.

If you're not paying the admin's mortgage, it not that hard to chip in. Unlike the other "options", no one is getting ad revenue or selling your data, if that's not worth a cup of cheap coffee a month for 1:20 people they have their priorities in the wrong places. .

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Its not unrealistic. I don't think anyone expects 50% or 100% of users to donate. Also sites sustained off ads get less than a few cents per user. Donating literally anything puts you ahead of an ad supporting user. If Every lemmy user donated a dollar a year there would be 500k in rev to support the development. When the culture shifts from everything must be free to everyone giving a little to the services they use we can easily fund the costs of these platforms.

You can host an instance very easily on low spec hardware but its a lot harder than giving a small donation.

In the sims modding community people pay $5 for a dress and modders make over 100k a year. This is because sims players are happy to pay for things they find valuable.

[–] deedan06_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah. Reddit is currently enshitifying in overdrive. They used to just do dumb features nobody wants, but now they are actively harming the base. The entire Luigi over-moderation this is just bad, and it feels like they want the formerly leftist site to go full maga now. and even if I do have to use it, the website often tends to not function properly these days, with the site constantly reloading, or voting functions to be broken. This is the year of lemmy.

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I figured the planned paywalling of content was going to be the last straw for me, but then they gave me a fucking warning for upvoting. I made a Lemmy account the same day. Fuck them.

The paywall shit is still planned for this year afaik so be prepared to see more of Reddit heading this way.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

I got a warning for a comment. Ive been on reddit for almost 13 years and have never been warned before. It’s crazy. My beliefs and writing style haven’t changed. Reddit has.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

want the formerly leftist site to go full maga now.

Reddit and X, sitting in a tree.