Just package it into the car warranty. Most people wouldn’t care then. For the most part new car people buy new cars and used car people buy used cars.

It’s a really good idea for the car manufacturer, as it would add one more annoyance to buying a used car. New car, no worries unless you plan to drive it into the ground. Used car, now you have to go online to see what subscription costs might be.

Seems like that would backfire as people recently remember signing up.

Give them a taste and then defederate…

Have them all in like a tag system. So I can see all subs related to technology, etc.

I think it’s part of the game and growing pains. You want high quality comments? Well you need more users, 75% of which will rarely post anything, 15% will spam low quality comments, and 10% might submit good posts and we’ll thought out comments. Those numbers are probably a little inflated, but you just need to frow the base and what we are looking for will eventually be there. There will just be a ton of other nonsense, but that’s the good part about upvote/downvotes and different ranking sorting systems.

It will take time, and a lot of people, for a long time will complain that Lemmy is becoming worse, while it slowly gets better.

The project devs currently have like 300 bucks a week comitted to them… kind of sad

Just download all the porn of Youporn. I believe they hit the 100 TB threshold like a decade ago.

I don’t love the awards from Reddit, but I would like to see something like this (unpopular opinion, I know). Instances need funding.

I don’t care about what the awards are themselves, I care about the way the funding works. I would love to see the funds split in a two tiered system.

Here is a general example of my idea. When a award is purchased it gets split into two pots. One pot is a general pot that gets disbursed to those running the instances based on whatever metrics and intervals agreed upon. The other part gets assigned to the reward itself. So in this example let’s say an award costs one dollar. 90 cents would go to the pool to be split, the other 10 cents would be tied to the award. So if you award a post on an instance it goes specifically to that instance itself. Instances could even set a percent split with community moderators of the 10 cents. That way you could fund moderators (if that ever becomes needed)

You could even split part of the award reward with the commentor assigned to it… but that puts a weird feeling in my gut and I feel like it is a bad idea to monetize the content itself.

There is a lot you could do with this and a lot more would need to be fleshed out, so I am just thinking out loud.

Not only that, there are parts of the world where FB provides the internet for free and its prohibitively expensive for those people to access the internet otherwise. You can’t realistically say those people have a choice.

That’s not even broaching the topic of whether or not we should give people “the choice”. Generally things that are known to be harmful if used in certain ways aren’t allowed to be sold to the general public. We take away “choice” all the time to protect the average idiot, I don’t see how this is any different.

Lol @ that little dip down when everyone was checking to see if their Reddit apps still worked that day.