2y ago

Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/
Reddit just decided it was a good idea to REMOVE the option to disable ad personalisation. Good job u/spez. We know what you're doing.
- Time for a new influx. Everyone still on reddit needs to advertise lemmy.
  And not join-lemmy.org, that's confusing. Just pick one of the larger servers like lemm.ee or fedia.io and tell people to browse it and click "Sign Up" if they like it.
  
  I'd recommend a smaller community to help spread the load. I originally signed up on .world but they were having some growing pains (And a disgruntled idiot ddosing them) so I moved to .ca which helped tremendously.
  
  I really disagree. For learning lemmy for average people, big instance is best.
  There is a point where people who stick around are likely to make a new "real" account on a different smaller server, after they know what they want to browse.
  Basically big instances should be like training wheels.
  
  Yeah tbh this is how I did it and I consider myself tEcH sAvVy - still started with .world because I didn't know where else to go.
  
  You need to know the special password for .ca
  
  Is it "sorry"?
  
  „Eh“
  
  Dot see eh?
  
  I'm Canadian anyway, so I have it memorized.
  
  Hello Canadian, I’m maple syrup!
  
  We may be related, I'm 40% maple.
  
  I see! I’m actually 33% polar bear and 66% maple, we may be not so distant cousins!
  
  I went to iusearchlinux.fyi and came back to .world about a week ago. It seems to be doing very well now.
  
  Don't forget lemmy.fiftyfifty.one , ani.social, programming.dev and lemmynsfw.com
  Also Canada and Germany have fairly large servers. Politely promote whatever fits the context and let people know having multiple accounts on different servers is 100% cool 😎
- Neat, so they are monetising your activities on the plattform. Isn't that great?
  
  Corporate does corporate things.
  
  For-profit company exploits userbase for profit. More at 11:00.
  
  I’m surprised you’re surprised that others are surprised… because no one is surprised about this.
  
  They've always been doing it, they're just gonna stop hiding it now.