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credo@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

Reddit CEO signals subreddits requiring a subscription fee coming this year

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Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
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    Welcome to Lemmy former redditors

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      The revolution will be televised; behind a paywall.

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        The revolution will have a subscription.

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          You will not own the revolution and you will like it.

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      Thanks. I just switched - apparently just in time!

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        Me too friend!!

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      The only subreddit you need is

      r/redditseppuku

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      Yeah I signed in for the first time in like a year right after seeing this lol

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    Some subreddits, like r/Watchexchange, where Redditors “buy, sell or trade watches,” according to the subreddit’s description, are centered on transactions. Huffman said the fact that users are already “transacting on Reddit kind of opens the door” for such monetization.

    “Hey! How dare you exchange things with each other without giving us a cut!”

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      Whole lot of “Reddit, what are you going to do about the scammers now that we’re paying you?” posts are coming. The answer is nothing. They’ll do nothing.

      Actually, they’ll write their lack of culpability more explicitly into the ToS, and then do nothing.

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        Actually, they’ll write their lack of culpability more explicitly into the ToS, and then do nothing.

        Ugh, aCtUaLly the almighty Reddit Admins and janitors Moderators will act decisively to ban anyone who dares use the report button.

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          The problem is the existence of the complaint, so this solves the problem

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      I’m wondering how they would charge people. Who would pay for a subreddit they’ve never been to? Could a non-paying user view the subreddit but be unable to post/comment?

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        Could a non-paying user view the subreddit but be unable to post/comment?

        Doubtful. If I remember the statistic correctly, 95% of social media users are lurkers. Greedy Little Pigboy wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to milk the remaining 19/20 users.

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        Scroll down a few times and – “THERE’S A WHOLE LOT MORE TO SEE WITH REDDIT+”

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          and then, get exclusive content, from reddit+ prenium.

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        Let’s be honest - this will kill many subreddits. Of course some mods will start a paid subreddit next to an existing one and try to bring their users to subscribe. So expect those subs to become like those YouTubers who are constantly trying to push you to their Patreon.

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          or they allowed subs, but with immense amount of ads: require to watch video, or watch this ad for a certain of time to use it for free. just basing it off how aggressively youtube, facebook does it.

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        Could easily see certain subreddits being like OF or Patreon. Pay for access to content. Pretty tried and true business model and it will probably work well enough to keep it around.

        Even YouTube has “memberships” to channels now where you get bonus content and stuff.

        The people that are interested will pay and those that aren’t won’t.

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        Dollars to donuts it’s going to immediately devolve into an onlyfans competitor

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        could be something like a private sub, where only approved members can enter.

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      thats why they have been aggressively going after OF subs/bots this month, they arnt getting a slice from the profit they are earning externally. from another forum,(where people flee after getting banned this way) alot of them lost tons of accts recently. yup one of my accts was temp ban for using the report button, how many is too much? it depends on the mod and the sub, if they dont like that you are reporting are reporting a person that should be reported, or the comment, you get banned for report abuse. these bans seems much severe than a subreddit ban.

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      I’m having a good time with my popcorn!

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    Removed by mod

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      Well, Spez is a special kind of stupid.

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      Isn’t it mostly bot-generated content?

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        Removed by mod

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    Guys, Gals, my non-binary pals.

    I hope you understand the assignment.

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    It’ll be the porn they charge for.

    They know only wankers will give them money.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldBanned
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      Reddit has cracked down on many porn subreddits in the last few years. Most porn on reddit is now just ads for onlyfans.

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      First they came for the porn subreddits, but I didn’t say anything because I was not a porn subreddit.

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      There isn’t really any porn left on reddit, it’s pretty much just OnlyFans ads now.

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    Well, that’s the death of the free* forum. Went from BBS to newsgroups to phpBB to Reddit, each soft-killing its predecessor. But like WalMart killing Main Street, Reddit is going to kill the free forum.

    Thank goodness for Lemmy and other free* social network software.

    *free with the asterisk because we know it’s not free, we are enjoying the service that others volunteer to pay for.

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    Next wave of reddit exodus coming soon…

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      I followed Reddit Sync to Lemmy during the API fiasco. Even then, it was better than reddit had been in years. It’s only gotten better.

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        Same bro, I’m still on Sync typing this to you 😄👍

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          Sync user, checking in.

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        What’s Reddit sync to lemmy?

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          Sync is an application that originally was designed to browse Reddit on Android. When Reddit destroyed 3rd party access, Sync was redesigned for Lemmy.

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    It’s not even worth using for free

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    I hope all the lemmy instances are ready for a surge of users. Let’s encourage redditors to join Lemmy and learn the kinks and quirks by trial and error. Let’s be kind to the newcomers.

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      This is the mindset to have when new people discover anything you enjoy. Great way to put it.

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    As soon as I read that I thought I’d make an account here.

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      Welcome! It’s weird here, but it’s great.

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      Same, fresh refugee here. I’ve tried mastodon before and I didn’t feel good with Fediverse, but only because I never really used Twitter. Surprisingly I only discover Reddit few weeks ago (to properly spend some time there… where was I all these years lol) I’m starting to like this fediverse though 😁

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        Honestly, same. Mastodon is fine if you like the Twitter format, but I never did. Lemmy works for me, largely cuz Reddit also worked for me, until the API debacle.

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      Welcome! Hope you like it here. I’m happy to see people are jumping ship despite the “it’s too complex to switch to Lemmy” false narrative.

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      Same here.

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      Saaaame

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    Curious to see the comments about it on Reddit

    Edit:

    • https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1ipfaz0/with_reddit_announcing_paywalled_subreddits_this/
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      You made a great comment showing some easy ways to join Lemmy, and that’s what I appreciates about you!

      • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Thanks!

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        It’ll be a great comment for a few hours until Reddit deletes it all and bans OP.

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          Still up, 600 points, 130 comments

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        image

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          I appreciates many things about Ms. Katie

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      I wonder how long this will stay up.

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        Curious as well

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      sounds like they are coping

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    Goodbye Reddit, Hello Lemmy.

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      Hello friend.

      Here, take this:

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        Thank you

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          Enjoy our !taneggs@lemmy.ca

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      2 hours fresh out of the oven!

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