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  • That's great, blahaj is perfect for them. LGBT users are much more likely to migrate (aside from porn users lol).

    • aside from porn users

      IMO, Lemmy is going to miss the boat when Reddit bans porn. When all the OnlyFans people come here to the Reddit alternative and find out that they can't post promotions and links to their own profiles and pin them, and that they probably won't be getting followers because the functionality seems to be sparsely implemented with some platforms / apps allowing it and others not; they're going to look for another platform where they'll be able to promote themselves and not just give away pictures and clips for free with nothing in return.

      Had a conversation earlier that made me realise that this place kinda sucks for anyone interested in self promotion. And IMO the devs need to seriously consider this because regardless of how one feels about porn, it's something that has the potential to attract a lot more people here who might come for the porn but stay for the memes.

      • Not to mention that many instances will consider that automated onlyfans promo behavior to be spammy and be more likely to ban them. I know I would. A lot of the people who do that set up bots to crosspost their content rapidly and broadly as well as deleting and reposting stuff to make it rise to the top and stay there. The worst of these people get banned by Reddit for this so I don't see why Lemmy instances would tolerate that kind of behavior anywhere near the amount Reddit does.

      • Meh. Lemmy doesn't have to be huge.
        Let the brands go somewhere else.
        Brands are anti-social anyway and this is
        social media.

      • Following people and personal subs is a relatively new feature on Reddit. Before that, people used to create a sub for themselves and just post to it. It's possible here too.

        • Feels to me like those features have been around for at least half a decade now lol but I dunno, Reddit changed a lot in the 10+ years I used it and it's all a blur. But yeah, it still means that people would have to go backwards and lose features that they've enjoyed and made use of to promote their work.

          Before Reddit implemented followers, it was largely just exhibitionists doing it for free. But times have changed and there's not a lot who are going to be doing it anymore without the expectation that they're going to gain something out of it. And more power to them IMO because why shouldn't they make money out of it.

          Just want to say, I'm not particularly invested in porn exploding on this platform, if I ever feel like porn, it's not exactly hard to find anywhere. I'm just trying to think of ways that this platform will ever get more than 50k users. And more than two dozen of the same people actively posting.

          I enjoy the anti-establishment sentiments here and I kinda get the "we don't need more users or people promoting themselves" talk because people have an aversion to enshittification, and rightly so. But then people here also need to choose.

          Either they can have a platform where they're going to grumble over feature requests and shake their fists over the idea of more users; or they can complain about the place being 99% politics with no niche communities or no activity in their favourite subjects. But they can't do both. And as far as amateur porn goes, the game has changed since the days before OnlyFans existed.

          Edit: just to add, it would also be a hell of a lot more ethical having the actual workers here instead of that bot on LemmyNSFW that steals people's posts from Reddit and takes away potential business from amateur DIY workers trying to make a living. If people are actually ok with this, then they're not a pro working class as they claim because it's directly stealing from the hands of the worker, not some giant corporation.

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