No

I don’t want users who come over due to ads.

Nah, fuck that. This place is already too much like reddit.

Fight enshittification through enshittification? Not really a good idea, if you ask me.

Lemmy(software) shouldn’t buy ads but I don’t think there’s any reason an individual instance shouldn’t buy ads if they choose to. Whether or not that will bring users that are worth having, is a different story entirely.

The kind of people who would join this place are also the kind that would block ads.

Personally, I would never give Reddit a single penny. Their garbage CEO does plenty to get people to leave and I am sure it will keep like that.

Besides the reasons already mentioned by others here: not all users are the same, and we’re better off if some of them remain in Reddit. And yet this sort of advertisement is bound to attract people who are at the very least completely clueless (otherwise they wouldn’t be seeing ads), if not worse.

Instead I think that a better approach is to simply use the platform. Create posts, insightful comments, use the voting buttons. Also, discourage people from derailing non-political threads with political content.

I’m probably the weird one, but I specifically make it a point not to buy anything I’ve seen in any ad.

No.

Fuck reddit, lmao

Up to you. But i wouldnt waste the time or money unless you want your site’s iq to fall at an accelerated rate

I wouldn’t put it passed r*ddit to accept the transaction then only push them to some group that makes them look bad so if that group leaves they can claim they successfully cleaned up their platform.

A study just came out that was posted in Hexbear showing at least 15% of Reddit content is corporate botting so we should just have some fun with LLMs and AstroTurf it instead like everyone else is doing

No. We should not give them our money.

If anything then we should post more links to relevant original Lemmy content on other platforms.

My reasons against that

• we’d be directly giving money to Reddit
• users dislike the places they see ads about, and it would appear extra desperate because of the point above
• money is better spent supporting developers and content creators on here

Not to mention that Reddit will probably shut that down

That doesn’t mean we don’t do anything though. A number of subreddits continue to have automod messages and pinned posts directing people elsewhere. There are a lot of people on Reddit who WANT things to succeed here.

So some other ways to help.

On Reddit:

• work with subreddits to set up parallel communities here, and ease the transition of people moving

• find subreddits that benefit from backups / fediverse communities, and work with them to improve things

On the fediverse:

• write up guides and update existing resources to help newcomers

• Post interesting content on the fediverse. People use things they get value out of, and new people won’t stay if things are quiet here. Set up an RSS feed, share the cool videos you see, write about your thoughts on casual communities.

Specifically financial:

• Donate to the development of a project you like. If you can, reoccurring donations provide stability for the developers to work on things.

• Donate to the instances that are running the services and platforms

TLDR:

• Money can help, but paying for ads isn’t the way to go (at least not yet)