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Most reddit topics were about Digg in the days following the Digg exodus. Over time, discussion shifts naturally.

Lemmy needs to make Hot the default. It’s a better experience for new users.

In an ideal world these APIs would be free. But corporations exist to maximize profit and their value is the user network and the content that users generate. Of course they will try to milk it as much as possible.

Need to actually deliver on this, not just suggest it.

I would guess that it’s because their business model is to offer support and or customization to enterprises. Full control of the stack enables this.

That’s likely their goal. At least some percentage of ad blocking users will disable the adblock and for those that won’t, they’ll save server costs.

For corporations that care only about quarterly stock price this makes sense. They don’t care about the long term damage to the ecosystem (adblocking users still contribute in many ways).

I’m actually curious the reason why Lemmy does not have a karma equivalent.

I don’t miss it since I rarely checked my reddit karma but it does have pros and cons.

I rarely engage with Reddit stories but when I do, I treat stories in popular-ish subs as discussions about hypothetical scenarios: “if this were to happen then what would you think of it?”

I completely stay away from threads that are clear rage baits, and they are easy to spot.

Or maybe /u/spez is manually changing vote counts, as he did before when modifying user comments without saying so.

If you actually want a smart fridge then be aware that when the display breaks, they will charge you the price of a new fridge to replace it.

I would consider the broken display to be a feature tho.

They did this in only a few subs for now. Likely testing waters in preparation for forcing all other subs to be public.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit completely removes the private sub feature.

Lemmy is a much better choice because there will never be a need to migrate away from Lemmy. Also, no investors, no dark patterns and no pursuit of infinite growth.