My FU to reddit - Disrupting Substantial Traffic and Rebuilding on Lemmy
My FU to reddit - Disrupting Substantial Traffic and Rebuilding on Lemmy
For years, I was a very prominent community member on r/vans (different username). I have been a very large content creator there and loved the community, but I'm thru with reddit.
I had the random thought to search google images for the shoes I've posted, searching "vans [model keyword] reddit" and I was surprised to see that my posts were consistently the top image results. Half the time the first image result was one of mine, and the vast majority of the time my images were the 2nd and 3rd image results.
Those are just the tip of the iceberg. I realize now that one user absolutely can make a measurable impact, as I have undoubtedly directed an absurd amount of traffic to reddit and r/vans thru image search engines over the years. Not anymore!
I went thru reddit manually deleting years of posts off of r/vans (admins can undue the script deletion). Now there are 100s of image results on search engines that just go to my deleted reddit posts!
Most importantly.. I have created !vans@lemmy.world (alt link for apps that don't support that format) and strongly encourage any Vans fans to check it out! I have also published the greatest shoe cleaning guide on the internet over there!
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I think the most insulting thing is that reddit wants to monetize off of things like YOUR efforts and YOUR content. Stuck it to em' and made us proud! Nice work! Hope your new community does well.
While also farming out the content moderation to volunteers.
And still not being profitable lmao
Mind boggling how many people can work for you for free and you still can't make money
They're making money. Not turning a business profit and not making money are two very different things. You can become a billionaire with a business that never turns a profit in the accounting books.
Profiting from the work others in true capitalist fashion.
I mean, isn’t that what YouTube, Instagram and TikTok do?
At least you get some of the profits on the platforms. On Reddit you just get karma.
Yeah that’s a good point.
Those platforms also have paid moderation teams.