Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

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• HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is good. It will drive more people away from Reddit.

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Welcome to any reddit refugees that might be reading these comments! we are cool beeple, i promise

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    • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You forgot some other instances of not so cool people.

      By the way, isn’t there somewhere written in your instance’s website that “this isn’t like Reddit” or something?

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  • GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Jean Luc Picard saying “make it so.”

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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Aren’t you glad you did the work and gave Reddit the content it monetizes for free?

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m more impressed that they found buyers for my drunk shit posts.

    Those can’t possibly be good for AI.

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    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      When then announced they’d be selling content for AI training, I went back to my old abandoned Reddit accounts and slightly altered all of my previous posts with actual content to be factually incorrect and misleading in subtle ways. It took me two months to rewrite everything, a few old posts at a time per day.

      Now whatever technical or historical stuff I posted on Reddit is wrong and AI is training on that.

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m glad that I ran the script to replace 99% of my content with >!CENSORED!< , they can monetize it all they want 😆

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• thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Paid subreddits. I mean look at the free to play live service games, how people like to buy stuff that not everyone has. We can laugh as much as we want and think how dumb this is. But people are dumber. It will drive away some people from Reddit, most won’t care and just stay using the “Free” stuff. Some will pay for the subreddits.

  Maybe NSFW content or support subreddits for paying customers.

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  • socsa@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Remember when porn subs were people just having fun and posting instead of this endless stream of monetization efforts? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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 🤦).

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• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You folks ready for the next Rexodus?

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  • melp@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Was the last one bad? I came from the last one.

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I arrived here in June 2023 as part of the interest in alternatives after the API changes were announced. We saw a spike in applications, so I expect that could happen again, though we’re not a major of an instance as we were back then. Lemmy.world will likely take the brunt of the influx, and as we’re not federated with them, the impact should be minimal.

      I’m still on Reddit for niche communities, but I use it very differently from 20 months ago. I’ve grown to enjoy a collective of self-selecting people who want something better than what Reddit offers, which is less and less by the month.

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So did I, haha. This was a “yay new friends”-type comment.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Spez: “hmm. Have we fucked ourselves enough? How can we enshittify harder?”

  There’s a guy-thrown-out-window meme in there.

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We’re just getting warmed up here! There’s so much to do.

    How about we introduce several tiers of premium currency, like copper, silver, gold, platinum rubies and diamonds, each with their unique exchange rates.

    You could have limited-time awards purchased with one of the premium currencies. Also, add time-gated features, like temporary access to meme subreddits, or comment and post visibility boosts.

    Pay-to-win mechanics should be included too. How about time-limited karma boosters?

    Oh, and loot boxes! We’ve got to have those too. You could buy basic loot boxes with copper coins, and in those you could find a few silver coins randomly. With the silver coins, you can buy silver boxes, some of which may contain gold coins, and so on all the way to diamond tier. Now that you have a convoluted assortment of different currencies, you can use them to boost your account, posts and comments in different ways. Oh, and Season passes too, can’t forget those!

    Ads. So much ads! Of course, you can get rid of some of them, depending on how much you pay and which currency you use. These are all time-limited features, so you better keep those coins and gems flowing every day.

    And subscriptions too! Once you subscribe to something like 1231 copper coins a day, you can’t cancel without climbing the mount Kilimanjaro. The only cancel button is physically located on a computer somewhere up there.

    And there’s so much more to come.

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    • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Those novel currencies, of course, will be tied to Bitcoin or some other “coin” they’ll create exclusively for that purpose, brothel-money style.

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• Brad@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is no content on Reddit valuable enough that I would pay for access to it.

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  • inverted_deflector@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah at it’s best reddit is an aggregate of content from around the web and a message board.

    The only thing I can think of that this makes sense for is to keep the onlyfans people who promote on reddit(or got started on gonewild) to stay on reddit. I feel like reddit is probably not trying to get more in bed with providing porn so Im curious exactly what the application could be otherwise.

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    • INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Have you ever been to the reddit gold lounge?

      I imagine it will be that, one way or another.

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  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sadly there is… Recently I found an old post where someone was sharing a script to integrate Thunar’s bulk rename into Nemo as an action…

    There’s still valuable info out there and that’s kinda depressing to still search the web and always fallback to a reddit post :/.

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• OneRedFox@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder if it’ll be the porn.

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  • Banzai51@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Of course it will be the porn.

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    • gk99@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Great way to lose all of the traffic. This would require two things:

      1. Accounts, which is automatic friction. Whether that’s people who have no account and only come to browse, whether that’s people having to make a second account or choose to be horny on main, this is definitely going to cause some user loss.
      2. Willingness to pay reddit for porn, which like, no. They’d be better off giving paid user pages and simply taking a cut so OnlyFans creators can treat reddit similarly. I don’t think many people are gonna want to pay for what amounts to teasers for other paid options.

      Additionally, this would mean reddit is acknowledging the porn on their site and taking responsibility for it by profiting off of it. Therefore, because reddit is an American company, this will kill off their audience in Texas and Oklahoma where, effectively, American-hosted porn websites are banned.

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• f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I recently saw one of my blank posts on Reddit and almost regretted running the mass eraser…

  …Nah, fuck that site. 😂

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  • mischievous@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    wish I had done it.

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• mischievous@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wish had erased all my comments before being banned. I used to participate to a legal subreddit and provided lots of legal comments and suggestion about civil law that the now can use.

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• melp@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  lol. ok I really need to go through and replace all my content with “f spez” comments. I haven’t logged into that account in a long time.

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• somedev@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Echo-chamber, maximise!

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• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  🤣😂

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And that’s how Reddit lost even more users.

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• leetnewb@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think the option to put some subreddits behind a paywall is necessarily a bad thing. Hopefully the federated link aggregators are in a better place now to absorb another exodus if reddit does scare off a bunch.

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• Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My theory is that they’ll put all of the default subs behind the paywall.

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