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.
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.
alright Lemmy, rev up your servers
Time to welcome our siblings
Time to get ready to flame a whole new generation of confused enlightened centrists you mean
It’s going to be fun criticizing liberalism in front of those centrists
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.
This is just taking the old Reddit gold room and expanding on it.
That place was hilariously terrible
Yeah every time I was rewarded gold and would get access to that sub it was nothing more than a big circle jerk of people posting how they got gold. Nothing engaging was ever dicussed.
And how could it have been anything other than that, honestly? For most people with gold (as a reminder, it cost around $5/mo on average), it was something they got spontaneously and saw as a novelty. I think I was gifted it fewer than six times before silver and platinum were introduced. So in order to even see this sub, you needed a relatively rare and expensive award/subscription that more or less did fuck-all if you had an ad blocker. Then you needed to care enough to even go and check it out. Then you needed to care enough to participate. And was there any real difference between a redditor picked out of a hat and one with gold? Were they the “cream of the crop” for engaging conversation? Not really.
A lot of the time it was obtained for random, funny one-liners. Sometimes for a one-off, well-researched explainer on a topic that they’re familiar with but which would be too specific for the gold subreddit. And for both of those, they would have gold for only a month and probably wouldn’t have time to start actively participating in the sub knowing they’ll be booted out in 30-ish days. Maybe they’ll comment something in surprise at this discovery and never show up again.
Then you have those who had gold long-term: the karma farmers and the subscription-payers. What do the people willing to pay a subscription have in common? They’ve probably developed a curated enough sub list that they have more interesting things to read and comment on. And what do the karma farmers have in common? They’re trying to min/max the hell out of the algorithm, not appeal to a loose collection of like 1000 people where their posts can’t show up on /r/all literally no matter how popular they get.
I would like this idea if the paid subreddits weren’t also scraped for AI training. I’m not paying to feed LLMs. But I’m increasingly getting into private communities.
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.
I think they’ll never do this. They rely too much on porn to keep the site running.
I think the opposite. It’s inevitable that porn will eventually be removed entirely to please prudish investors.
Ah, that’s a good point too, forgot about that.
The same was true for Tumblr.
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!
please do it
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.
Welcome here, feel free if you have questions, this post can also be useful: https://lemm.ee/post/37715
Thank you! Another reason why I like it here so far is that every interaction with people has been positive. Greatly appreciated!
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.
Sorry I misunderstood. I thought the post I was replying to was regarding just create a new subreddit, if a different sub starts charging.
But now that I’ve re-read it, it says “community” as here on Lemmy. So I misunderstood. :)
Dooooooo iiiiiiiiiit
Lol pay to be censored LMAO 🤣
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.
Welcome to Lemmy!
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.
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
