Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has hinted that in future some subreddits could be paywalled, as the company seeks to devise...
My initial reaction was to get pissed, but then I remembered I don't care anymore.
Reddit policies now affect me as much as National Holidays in Mongolia.
I bet you ten to one we are going to get a super influx of redditors and I will bet you askhistorians will be behind a paywall which will be nice if the mosey on over here.
The only way that it'll affect us is if they paywall existing subreddits that contain a ton of useful information. But you can't even find that information half the time anymore anyway, so I guess it's a wash.
I think this is a great idea and they should implement it immediately. Spez is charting a bold new direction, fighting back against every instinct of logic or sanity.
Looking forward to the next fediverse boom.
Uplifting news, the content creators should really be paid for what they post, and so should be the mods. /s
Literally, they should be paying users for their comments, not charging them.
He suggested that the company might experiment with paywalled subreddits as it looks to monetize new features. “I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has,” Huffman said. “But now we will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas, things of that nature.”
Frankly, it sounds like he wants to take on OnlyFans, or more prosaically, Patreon? I guess? I suppose as a platform to host paid interactions with people who think they have unique content and interesting takes, Reddit's as good as any, but the upside seems limited here.
The Fediverse welcomes the future influx of more content creators!
The minute porn isn't accessible for users submitting PII, That site is gonna Tumblr off a cliff.
Well shoot, I had no idea about this. I guess I picked a good time to check out lemmy. I was already tired of the ads disguised as posts, or constantly having subs I didn’t care about shoved in my face. So this just adds onto an existing list of reasons to bail.
Welcome to Lemmy!
ROFL Way to sink a vessel sooner, CEOs are so ridiculous! I used to care, but now that I have no skin in the game; I just laugh. Or fight if they try to bring their bullshit to another platform.
I’ve had my account for almost 15 years. I’m a top contributor. I feel like the entire site is just filled with freaking bots now. I hate to sound like an old person yelling about the changes, but I always thought of Reddit as the Internet “TRL“ if anybody remembers that show from MTV. But just like everything else in this country, it’s becoming more and more commercialized and the freedom that once was Reddit is nearly close to gone.
Someone in the thread about this on Reddit mentioned Lemmy and I’m hoping That this is a new place to go. Been using Reddit for so long. I don’t know where else to go.
Lemmy is great because there is a lot of redundancy of having multiple community ran instances instead of a centralized platform like reddit has.
I've moved over two Lemmy two months (I got the feeling that I needed a Reddit alternative).
I still visit Reddit for more niche content, but for many things Lemmy works fine.
That being said, Lemmy is a lot smaller than Reddit. I believe Lemmy (all instances) only have 50K DAUs, while Reddit has 73 million DAUs, so a lot of things will be missing.
Welcome to Lemmy!
People really need to remember how easy it is to create a forum of their own. There is literally no need to pay reddit for a niche community, when one can just be created in an afternoon. Hell, you can just spin up a community on Lemmy. But of course reddit will delete and block any posts with information about moving a subreddit somewhere off-site.
Yup. They can remove any content they don’t like under guise of “Our platform is ours so no free speech”
Remove content they don’t like while pushing content in my face that I don’t want to see.
Between the constant ads and politically divisive subreddit recommendations that plague my Reddit experience, Lemmy feels like a breath of fresh air. I actually see the stuff I want to see, and am not having garbage pushed onto me.
There is literally no need to pay reddit for a niche community, when one can just be created in an afternoon
Unless they charge you to do that too.
Who is "they"? You'll need to pay for hosting, and a domain, but that's like $5 per month and $20 per year, for one person. Nobody else would need to pay. I suppose the biggest issue is that most people don't know how to do that anymore, and nobody wants to. It used to be something people got excited about when they were passionate about a hobby.
please do it
Dooooooo iiiiiiiiiit
Lol pay to be censored LMAO 🤣
I just deleted my old Reddit bookmark and the app as Lemmy serves everything I want at this point.
I still need it for content
I’m glad I left Reddit but there IS a lot of used info archived on there.
Reddit is way too ban happy with little to no recourse of moderators on a power trip
Good! It'll hasten their demise. Long live Lemmy, removed!
