Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac
comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I’ve been waiting to see how they’re going to fuck up NSFW subs and I’m willing to bet that’s where this is going.
I can only hope it affects the ones that focus on self-promotion, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just decide to charge for access to NSFW subs entirely, since they already removed it from the free API.(*)
I know I’m not the only one who basically only has an account for that stuff, although a lot of those subs have turned to shit over the last year or so. AI generated nonsense, self-promotion even when it’s discouraged, bad moderation, some disappearing entirely because they were abandoned back last year…
(*) Technically, you can still view that content without an account via Old Reddit (or at least you could a few months ago, haven’t checked recently), but that’s inevitably going to be killed as well, it’s just a matter of “when”.
I find a lot of good content on Reddit, but its different now as opposed to the early days. The good content used to be on Reddit. Now its not, its on one of 6 other sites, and Reddit is just the ad service they’re posting on. I am sick of the in joke comments and inane comments like “this”. I want discussion.
Reddit no longer has that.
It’s going back to the roots, just in an extremely twisted way - I’m old enough to remember when Reddit was just a link aggregator. You put your stuff on your own site/blog/forum (remember those?), and linked to that from reddit.
People could then update and comment on it on reddit, but the idea of posting something there directly was a ridiculous idea - how could anything be found later when it would get buried under the new stuff in a few hours, and bumping isn’t a thing at all?
Fuck reddit and social media, I want my forums back :(
vinniep@beehaw.org 2 months ago
NSFW subs are exactly where my mind went as well, but monetizing some of that content could prove legally fraught. Instead, I’d wager the scope narrows a bit to a very specific OnlyFans type of model. Weren’t they already looking at paid awards that provide a cash reward to the recipient? Sure sounds like a tipping model to me 🤔