That was the avatar NFTs: most people didn’t care, some jumped on the FOMO and paid through the nose to “catch them all”.
If they had opened that to 3rd party apps, even as a requirement to use the API, or better yet if they gave a cut to 3rd party apps, instead of blindly charging for the API, they could have got a great net to catch whales, while most people would just ignore it and keep contributing their time (mods) and content (comments).
Instead… well, this.
There used to be a special subreddit for people who brought Reddit Gold, nobody cared, it was essentially a joke, but people bought it in good faith to “support the servers” and “for the lulz” of gifting it around (…and then they killed that too 🤦).
socsa@piefed.social 1 week ago
NSFW is the only one that makes sense tbh. Resdits interface would actually be pretty good for an OF like subscription service considering how much OF advertising already exists.
But I strongly suspect they are going to try to do something dumb like tech support or tutoring which nobody is going to pay for.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Remember when porn subs were people just having fun and posting instead of this endless stream of monetization efforts? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
leetnewb@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Unmoderated user generated nsfw forums were (are?) a beacon for dubious to illegal content. I forget the specifics, but didn’t Pornhub have to pivot from accepting a firehose of free user submitted content after failing to moderate sufficiently? User generated nsfw + free just seems like an impossible balance.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Realistically, Reddit has been useless for porn for quite some time.