Of course they will lose users. They will lose the users that would otherwise get them sued. Pretty sure they are okay with the trade-off.

What’s that? It’s on somebody’s property. Someone is paying for power, connectivity, and air conditioning.

It hides the true cost of the meal and allows both the employee and the employer to avoid taxes on this part of the “salary”

Agreed. As others have pointed out, voting helps to elevate higher quality posts (even if it doesn’t always work that way), but karma takes that imperfect process to its ridiculous extreme.

Not sure if this was an argument for karma, but it sounds like an argument for avoiding contraversy and trying to fit in This is why everyone on Reddit appears to have the same opinion. I much prefer a diversity of opinions, and no penalty for speaking one’s mind (while treating each other with decency).

Karma makes sense, in theory, but in practice, it just punishes anyone who diverges from the herd.

I am not alone.

We are guests.

Is there any advantage to being on a large instance?

I’m reading this on Liftoff. I would say there are several apps, with more on the way. But they are all very new, with varying levels of functionality and maturity.

I wonder to what extent causal users contribute to the health of the platform. May depend on how “casual” they are, but it may be possible that their absence won’t be that detrimental.

I’ve spoken to people IRL who say that the protests are pointless, even if I show them a new community growing because of them. There is probably some shenanigans involved in the volume of anti-protest activity, but there are plenty Redditors with Stockholm Syndrome to give them credibility

Rexxitors.

Everyone’s judging! I’m pretty sure that’s how the platform is designed.

But I get what you’re saying. I’m just adding my little joke to grow the content library.

Same here. Yesterday, I had a moment of clarity, logged off, deleted RIF, and came here. That quickly, this is my thing, now.

Judging by what I saw on my last day on Reddit, he may be right.

We may look back in the not-too-distant future and be pretty happy that the angry, bitter, Reddit “thing” happened. An open-sourced, federated model is just healthier than what most of us were satisfied with, before. It took all this to make this mass migration possible.

I dunno. This is the energy that made me finally decide Reddit wasn’t for me and work up the drive to give Lemmy a shot. My first 5 minutes here have been great!

Maybe if I’d already seen this post 50 times, I’d get where you are coming from, but for those of us that just got here, this is the energy that made it happen. Be patient while we acclimate.

FWIW, the people staying on Reddit kinda do, or did, impact us. Their apathy means that the community we’ve been a part of for years is not going to get better. They’re why we had to go.