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Should Lemmy buy ads on Reddit? (fedidb.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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User count has plateaued at about 420K

Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K

Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts.

Maybe because they're tired of ads on reddit?

Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit?

I can see it now:

"Ads suck. We're ad-free forever. Join Lemmy."

and

"He'll never get us. Join Lemmy." or "Don't let him get you. Join Lemmy"

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You'd be surprised.

I have a RL friend who's on Reddit all the time, and he didn't even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I've been trying to sell it to him...

Re: The "We're elite" becomes "We're bored talking among the same old people" or "We're burned out", leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.

I've been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

And if your friend isn't convinced by you and somehow missed the months long protest, destruction of third party apps, and mass exodus, honestly they should stay in reddit. We don't need another Facebook.

Plus, have you considered that Lemmy isnt singularly owned? You literally can't say ANY of what you want to say in your ads. "We don't have ads". Really? You can assure me that no single instance has ads? Which instance are you even going to link to? Your own? What makes that one special? What happens when you advertise for "Lemmy" and people find the intolerant instances and assume that's all of the fediverse? What about other offshoots like kbin and mastodon? Not gonna advertise for them? And why should I trust you with money in the first place? For all I know it's just a scam to collect money and run. What happens when someone else pops up claiming that their donation campaign is the real one and yours is fake? Literally anyone can spin up an instance and claim to be "doing it for Lemmy!"

Yeah, hard hard hard no