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Another Podcast Addict user here. But I don’t think they pay the Podcasters anything if that’s your concern. If you’re listening to Joe Rogan, don’t pay him a penny. Pirate the shit out of his podcasts. But maybe you should consider giving to Patreon if you don’t already. They take a cut but at least you know its going to the podcaster.

Also you really should know that Tidal isn’t paying anyone any better, no platform is. They’re all beholden to rights holders, and that is mostly record labels and their parent companies. No platform pays per stream, that’s a myth. Spotify just distributes all the money left after their 30%. Blame the labels for making audio so unprofitable and for the average listener for treating music and podcasts as disposable,

Before you think I’m defending spotify, I’m not. They tried to make an unprofitable product profitable and they did it by selling out to record labels. Spotify could have made them irrelevant but chose not to.

That’s a feature I didn’t know about. Will definitely keep an eye on that

I’m not sure it was, unless you actively sought it out.

Lots of communities were nice and pleasant, with little to no animosity. The politics subs invite debate and discussion, so naturally argumentative people gravitate there. But most of Reddit was fun

Online discussions can be toxic anywhere. You don’t have to take part in a community and don’t have to be dragged into dramw. There’s always somewhere more welcoming.

The same individuals who benefit from Reddit as a training ground for AI also have a stake in Reddit. They are transferring money from one pocket to another.

You should just make new posts of unique content instead of ripping posts from Reddit. Recycled memes doesn’t make a community - interaction does

What would this achieve? Mods who’ve spent years building their communities aren’t going to hurt their reputation just so you can live out a fantasy of burning Reddit to the ground. We get it, it hurts to lose a community. But if you’re done with Reddit, post content here that makes this place better. For now at least, Reddit and Kbin/Lemmy will exist together. There’s not going to be a Diggesque switchover to this platform, there’s too many people who just don’t share our concerns, amongst other blockers. This is doubly so if the only unique content here is complaining about Reddit.

Basically, live and let live. Some people will find their way here in due time. Spez is doing a fine job of butchering Reddit himself. He doesn’t need help.

One completely out of touch ideologue praising another isn’t surprising but it is shocking how such incompetent people can land positions like this.

It’s not too late for Reddit to claw some of it’s reputation back, but this guy needs to step down for it to happen.

uBlock Origin runs in FF - works on FF for Android too.

This is a balanced take. Reddit probably is ok with new front page subs taking over. I guess newer users who don’t care about 3rd party apps will take over as core users.

This is probably true. The front page is not barren, there’s plenty of users being active. The subs I frequented are still dark so there’s nothing for me, but it’s clear that Reddit isn’t going to start begging for us back yet.

It’s not getting as much discussion time around these parts but Discord seems like its gonna be the true reddit successor. Honestly, this makes me sad because Discord feels like jumping into a stream of consciousness.

Oh no! I’m gonna have to read man pages

If you have to ask then you’re probably fighting a losing battle. I’d focus more energy on making kbin (or Lemmy) a viable alternative. Post content that people want to see. If you are a dev contribute to open source.

I’m sure the potential users who are on the fence would be more likely to move over if the platform was in the best shape it can be. It needs an actual community of users and content for that to happen.

How long before there are calls for spez to resign? There’s no way other people at Reddit are happy with how he’s handled this. The product has been gutted, it’s probably worth a fraction of what it could have been. What next?