So sounds to me like… reddit’s looking to compete with say patreon etc… IE allow people to post content either early to payers, or release some things exclusively to payers.
Obviously the value of that will depend on how big of a cut reddit goes after, and assuming they don’t try and move existing participant focused subreddits to it.
I don’t see that as a particularly good idea. One not really sure if it’s possible. To my knowledge the only things that majorly run better in chrome, are google’s sites. May be part deliberate, but could just be super tuning to what they know.
But the biggest thing is lemmy is a small community that is best to encourage to grow. Fact is doing things to alienate part of your user base, is only really a good idea when you are the industry dominitor. IE the one so far ahead that you can make everything 20x worse, and second place can do everything 20x better, and still not fall into range of the second place competitor.
I mean, it’s probably best to stay out of political subs at that point. Reddit’s pretty far left of… mainstream US media, and yeah lemmy is fairly left of reddit.
But to be honest, just politics in social media will always be arguing. You aren’t likely to find a political group that perfectly lines up with exactly where you are.
In short… no, Lemmy developers believe the karma mechanics on reddit incentivize bad behavior. (IE making bots or even just yourself re-creating past succesful posts) or just posting the obvious ideas that one assumes everyone is going to upvote etc…