My NAS just arrived today. I’ll have ~42 TB of self hosted storage for 1k.

Google is charging me something ridiculous like, 300 a year for the same.

Exactly, they depend on thousands of people working from free (from people that post stuff to the moderators that don’t even get proper tools), and then they try to extort them. And in the middle of this I think people running some social media companies don’t understand that active users are both their suppliers and main asset, and that they should do everything in their power to not piss them off.

Lemmy is about as good, if not better than reddit afa software experience goes. Maybe embedded videos would be nice, but it doesn’t come with the deluge of garbage that reddit does.

I mean Reddit is clearly a company that shoyld focus on making proft.

Reddit is a company that commoditizes human communities and profits from the free labor of those who are willing to put in the effort to belong to something. Their value is derived from the communities that use their platform and the communities derive value from the tools reddit creates that allows for them to organize.

Reddit should focus on being a good platform. The profit-centric focus degrades the quality of the platform and will be the death of the thing in the end. The expansionist attitude is the achiles heal of capitalism. Anything of value gets turned into shit under that motive.

What do they say?

When your opponent is making mistakes, let them.

Its an unfortunate ideology that everything in the world should be optimized around profit.

I would say the majority of posts on Reddit are admin ran karma bots and scammers. Just a bunch of bots talking to themselves.

Its hard to say and I really wonder about this. Specifically, I think there is a lot of astro turfing, but not in the way most people think it is. I think very specific subreddits like r/marvel, formula one, celebrity news (which only really started making it to the front page in earnest 2 months ago), are some how in cahoots with reddit to sponsor their popularity. The game goes like this: you work with reddit to astroturf organic engagement with the channel, and over time, organic engagement takes over.

I think this is how Reddit makes real money and I wonder if they give two wiffs of piss about the embedded ads. I think you can attribute the success the modern marvel franchises have seen as well as the success that the modern star wars series saw to astroturfed social media campaigns on reddit.

Its pure conspiracy, I have no evidence other than watching the way that reddit has evolved.

Reddit still doesn’t quite understand where their value is derived from.