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The key is that executives don't really matter that much. The company isn't going to lose our on money of the CEO has diarrhea. The vast majority of work is done by the employees. Unfortunately, employees of the company can't just decide to give themselves bonuses and shit like the board can.

I don't think Lemmy is big enough for more high profile people to come here. The main reason celebrities do AMAs are for publicity for whatever they're promoting. Lemmy has way less total users than /r/iama has.

Wikipedia mainly survives on wealthy benefactors. Amazon donated a million or so recently, for example.

I mean I'm sure it's just temporary but it's kind of off-putting in what is probably the biggest opportunity for more users to join Lemmy.

I've been harassed across subreddits before by one person because I disagreed with them on something. You can block them but all the sudden they pop up on another account. Some people are just crazy.

I think the issue is just that having votes publicly accessible can lead to harassment. Sometimes I want to downvote bigots or idiots and not want the possibility of them engaging with me.

Exactly. I honestly don't care about reddit anymore. It's frustrating opening my feed here and having a large portion of the posts and comments complain about reddit. Like who cares? I think we can all agree that we don't like the route reddit too which is why we're here. Complaining about it more isn't going to do anything.

They could have just straight up said, "hey, we are getting rid of third party apps because we need to consolidate where our users browse reddit for our IPO". I would have been annoyed, but the way they pretended that all that TPA devs were too unreasonable to work with their outrageous terms genuinely pissed me the fuck off.

Making a website to host AMAs would be an enormous amount of work. Even if they retained their userbase, the costs of hosting a site that wouldn't crash would be significant. If they don't retain their userbase, it ruins the entire reason who many notable people do AMAs which is to advertise whatever they're doing. To make a profit, they would need to monetize it too somehow.

Exactly lol. Also the swiping on comments and posts to upvote, save, reply, etc behaves differently. I find myself accidentally downloading posts when I'm just scrolling.

I'm honestly just over reddit. Even if all the apps came back for free I'd probably try sticking with lemmy. Not a fan of a company that clearly doesn't give a shit about their userbase. Good for the third party devs who are making it work with subscriptions but I'm not willing to pay a subscription to go straight into reddit's pocket.