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

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"

newtraditionalists ,

No

eran_morad ,

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

guts ,

I think just trying to gather any redditor is a bad idea, there are really bad twisted redditors.

Daxtron2 ,

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.

lvxferre ,

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.

FunkyMonk ,

Only if it attracts Mike Pondsmith only.

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