Then watch Trump and GOP blame the liberals for it.

… and more than half of Americans will agree with that conclusion.

You would think, but seeing how people react to YouTube premium (at least on social media) I still have doubts.

Have you met people?

Introducing even a 0.49 charge per month would flood the front page of reddit and lemmy with “enshittification” rants for days. And 9 in 10 people would leave the platform, if not more.

You know that you are saying this on a platform with an active user base in the low 6 figures, right?

You know the meme “there’s dozens of us”?

I mean… either they introduce ads, or they start charging for the service.

VC funding only lasts so long, and they have bills to pay (and probably shares to sell).

Ads are targeted on the consumer, federating ads would be super bad PR, short lived and not at all effective.

You not only misinterpreted the description, but then you proposed a measure completely useless to either the real situation or your imagined one.

You did lemmy proud.

From boiling water into water that happens to be in a switched-on kettle. Huge improvement.

It IS a huge improvement.

Even if that happens, having switched once, makes sit easier for further switches as needed.

Not letting perfect being the enemy of good and all that…