5mo ago

Reddit CEO Teases Paywalled Subreddits

www.pcmag.com Just a moment...

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Let's build those same subreddits but free and on the Fediverse. Let's see if they move here.
- !fedigrow@lemm.ee
  !newcommunities@lemmy.world
  
  also !lemmy411@lemmy.ca and !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca
- I mean, it's probably for onlyfans-ish porn. So probably they won't want to move here.
  
  They could, but as it currently stands media hosting on the fediverse.... Sucks.
  It's obscenely expensive for everyone involved, and scales poorly. It's just not ready to operate at scale at this point.
  I'm sure it will get better, but large storage costs are better off being handled by a distributed file-system where a minimal level of duplication is baked in, but the storage load is reasonably spread out instead of fully duplicated on each peer.
  There are technologies for this, but they all have their own issues. And tomorrow there will be n+1 distributed filesystems, fragmenting it further.
- Is there a list of the most active subreddits which don't yet have a threadiverse counterpart?
  @rglullis@communick.news @Blaze@sopuli.xyz
  Might be an interesting project for Fediverser or !fedigrow@lemm.ee. Start with the most popular subreddit, create a Lemmy community on an appropriate instance, find mods and contributers (????, profit). Repeat with the next most popular subreddit.
  
  Subreddits that are not mapped yet, ordered by number of subscribers.
- Let’s build those same subreddits but free and on the Fediverse. Let’s see if they move here.
  I've started doing that.
  But ironically, I have had many posters call me an anti-american, Russian-sponsored employee of a troll farm because I started 10 communities on my first few days here! lmao

I just feel like The Joker in The Dark Knight reading this. The scene where Batman is driving his motorcycle straight at The Joker, and The Joker isn't flinching. They're playing chicken.
Reading this headline I'm like "do it....do it.......c'mon do it, you coward......C'MON!!!! DO IT!!!!"
Because I know that if he DOES try that, it'll be just as big of an exodus as Twitter had when bargin bin Lex Luther bought it.
Do it. C'mon, do it you coward!!!

They are going to pay those mods, right? Right?
- LOL next it'll be you need a Premium Member Subscription to be a mod.

Other than OF-style content, what exactly are they planning to paywall?
- Via Reddit
  
  In case they want to visit that subreddit: !assholedesign@lemmy.world
  
  Could please share the article from the screenshot? The one where he says he wants to paywall r/asshole design?
  So basically anything goes in terms of content...
  EDIT: The reference to assholedesign is a joke, the first part is legite (that they are generally considering paywalled subs).
  
  That's a satire article
- OF content would be a massive money maker. That might be enough to justify the whole project
  
  If they paywall their porn, the site tumblrs off a cliff.
  
  Don't underestimate Reddit coomers. They gots to coom and they'll pay to coom.

Gross and also why is this here?
- Every time Reddit does something stupid, there is an opportunity to bring more users to the fediverse.
  
  wow someone tell lemmy
- why is this here
  Because it's relevant?
  Don't let a bad thing go to waste, it's a great opportunity to shore up, improve, and accept migrating users with friendliness and openness.
  A great time to share the ideology behind decentralized social media.
  
  Yup, every Reddit screw up is an opportunity to get more users here.
  
  So every negative news about Twitter, Instagram and literally every non-fedi social media platform is "relevant" too?
  The post itself doesn't even make an effort to connect this to potential benefits for fedi.
- Also after a week of other posts about this (mostly to other sub's, but still).

Lmao gold lounge.

This is what got me to return to Lemmy
- Welcome back! How are you finding it this time?
- Welcome back

!reddit@lemmy.world has a thread about this for people interested

I went back to check things out for the first time in a while and realized just how awful it is in comparison to Lemmy. It's an incomprehensible clusterfuck of bots and influence campaigns. As long as engagement and new account numbers look good on paper to appease shareholders, I guess.
- Not every sub. The ones I use are mostly unchanged

@Five
I went on Reddit for the first time in months yesterday on two different occasions. Both times, Reddit kept throwing server error notices at the top of my screen.

Reminder that people did fuck-all to actually try and stop spez from turning Reddit into this dumpster fire
- We are here now, so there's at least that
- Everyone on this website did something to stop it. Leaving.
  
  Reddit still has over 70 million daily active users. The actions taken were entirely ineffective.

I actually think this might be good, imagine communities that will benefit from the involvement of professionals like therapists or nutritionists (like for stopping to smoke or drink alcohol or losing weight). If it has a market a lemmy alternative for that i think is definitely on the table.
- I disagree. The Reddit community at large is a bunch of spiteful shitposters who'll spin anything and everything you put infront of them. They've done this for years.
  It is the worst place for anyone with mental instability issues to frequent or seek advice in. Mainly because as we all know, Spez doesn't give a shit about anyone's privacy so anyone can just comb through your profile and stockpile ammo from you. Things you wouldn't tell anyone else - now it's in their hands. Information you thought was "safe" - now they know.
  There are other places out there that are more knowledgable and credible than Reddit pretends to be. Plus, they care about privacy. Like there's a suicide forum out there that will not let anyone outside, who hasn't registered anyways, to view the contents of the forum. Does Reddit do that? No, not even if you're a subscriber!
  I don't see a lot of dietitians, therapists, nutritionists, psychologists .etc spending all of their hard work to get the credentials to be where they want to be, just so they can offer sound and legitimate advice on a platform that doesn't give a single shit.
  
  I disagree. The Reddit community at large is a bunch of spiteful shitposters who’ll spin anything and everything you put infront of them. They’ve done this for years.
  In my experience lemmy users are worst on average , but maybe it depends on what kind of sections of lemmy and reddit you use.
  There are other places out there that are more knowledgable and credible than Reddit pretends to be.
  the benefits of communities of practice for learning are documented in research, in terms of communities of practice for self improvement for example i found nothing better then r/selfimprovement (and i spent a fairly large amount of time trying to find one). It's very helpful when people just share what helped them.
- Yeah, on the recycling table maybe. Garbage idea, boooooo

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