ads cost money to increase users to eventually profit from them later.

how would a decentralized lemmy profit from the increased users.

Any money spent on ads would be better off hiring more engineering resources and improving lemmy for the next time Reddit does something dumb prompting an exodus.

youtube is more secure than reddit.

it’s hard to offer that much video content for free

it looks fine to me.

kbin and Lemmy are 3 and 4 for fastest brisket growing servers.

Twitter has gone over much more changes in the past year than reddit.

• bought
• fired almost all employees
• lost ads partners
• had PR mishaps
• now rate limiting affecting ever user and ads at the same time
• now threads is out

reddit really isn’t really changing the experience for most people but Twitter is.

also more mastodon users also affects us too since you can interact with Lemmy on mastodon so it benefits the network

what data do are using to support this thesis?

I wonder if a longer term solution would be to auto rotate the server list to bump less popular ones.