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What's going to stop people from creating a new community and migrating the second reddit pay walls it.
Oh pics is now paywalled, looks like everyone is using pics_free
"Oh pics_free exists let's quickly ban that community before we loose revenue ... I mean because they violated the rules"
pics_free_free it is.
I prefer the _farthuffer suffix as a juvenile jab at Huffman who off course cannot stop huffing his own farts.
inb4 they make creating new subs cost money too
Oh man that's an idea that if they didn't have before I bet they do now.
The problem with media platforms like Reddit and Twitter is that they take place in a single Instance, with thousands of communities. So it's easy for one person (like an Elon Musk) to completely screw it up for millions of people.
With Lemmy, everything is decentralized. Communities are spread out and duplicated over hundreds of Instances in many countries. So if somebody ruins one Instance or community, people can just hop over to the second or third most popular Instance, and the original instance will dry up and disappear.
Reddit will likely ban any community that exists to evade the paywall