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Re:Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buy... by WeylandYutani on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:20PM (#36540722)
A Reddit killer would run into the same problems as Reddit.

Greedy fucks who just want to make money, insane moderators, the government who doesn't want you to host hate messages.

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Re:Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buy... by KSPAtlas on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:30PM (#36541800)
In concept, the threadiverse (Lemmy/kbin) should be able to overcome a few of these. In practice, we have yet to see
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Re:Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buy... by skinner927 on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:21PM (#36543972)
The only way is a truly decentralized system, but that’ll never happen. As long as someone has to pay to host someone else’s content, we run into problems.
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Re:Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats to Protesting Mods, as Ad Buy... by WeylandYutani on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:51AM (#36548736)
Yes I've learned over the years to always ask: where does the money come from.

Sure a small hobby forum can be funded out of someone's pocket but something the size of Reddit? Not a chance.

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