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[–] [email protected] 228 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some subreddits, like r/Watchexchange, where Redditors “buy, sell or trade watches,” according to the subreddit’s description, are centered on transactions. Huffman said the fact that users are already “transacting on Reddit kind of opens the door” for such monetization.

"Hey! How dare you exchange things with each other without giving us a cut!"

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whole lot of “Reddit, what are you going to do about the scammers now that we’re paying you?” posts are coming. The answer is nothing. They’ll do nothing.

Actually, they’ll write their lack of culpability more explicitly into the ToS, and then do nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I’m wondering how they would charge people. Who would pay for a subreddit they’ve never been to? Could a non-paying user view the subreddit but be unable to post/comment?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could a non-paying user view the subreddit but be unable to post/comment?

Doubtful. If I remember the statistic correctly, 95% of social media users are lurkers. Greedy Little Pigboy wouldn't pass up the opportunity to milk the remaining 19/20 users.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Scroll down a few times and -- "THERE'S A WHOLE LOT MORE TO SEE WITH REDDIT+"

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's be honest - this will kill many subreddits. Of course some mods will start a paid subreddit next to an existing one and try to bring their users to subscribe. So expect those subs to become like those YouTubers who are constantly trying to push you to their Patreon.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yes let's put a site that consists pretty much entirely of user-created content behind a paywall, what could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, Spez is a special kind of stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Quora did it. I don't go there anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guys, Gals, my non-binary pals.

I hope you understand the assignment.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It'll be the porn they charge for.

They know only wankers will give them money.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What’s funny about that is Reddit is mostly just an advertising front for onlyfans at this point

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I mean yeah, and that's the piece of the pie they want. It will start with letting content creators charge and probably end by some ban or disincentive on direct only fans links.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Reddit has cracked down on many porn subreddits in the last few years. Most porn on reddit is now just ads for onlyfans.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago

Well, that’s the death of the free* forum. Went from BBS to newsgroups to phpBB to Reddit, each soft-killing its predecessor. But like WalMart killing Main Street, Reddit is going to kill the free forum.

Thank goodness for Lemmy and other free* social network software.

*free with the asterisk because we know it’s not free, we are enjoying the service that others volunteer to pay for.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Next wave of reddit exodus coming soon...

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform.

Oh how exciting!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago

It's not even worth using for free

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (10 children)

As soon as I read that I thought I'd make an account here.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Welcome! It's weird here, but it's great.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You made a great comment showing some easy ways to join Lemmy, and that's what I appreciates about you!

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Goodbye Reddit, Hello Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hello friend.

Here, take this:

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was going to say something snarky about how they're going to fail because who would pay for social media, then I remembered blue checkmarks.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Yeah, people are fantastically stupid

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Watch them fuck up the implementation and suffer the worst PR disaster in recent history when they slap a paywall on r/suicidewatch.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Recent recruit from Reddit. Finally made the jump. Love the apps like Boost, Thunder and Voyager.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

fun fact: you dont have to use websites

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Just keep doing the Fediverse favors Steve!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Is fine hosting nazis and now is getting internal paywalls. I didn't know spez wanted to be Substack so bad.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Reddit is just borderline unusable because of the API thing.. The app is unusable, and Red Reader is just too bland to use.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine paying actual money for shitty memes and mean comments.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I forget the word for this, outpoopification? Insufficification? It escapes me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Spezification?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

mfw someone makes r/paywalledwhatever then someone else mirrors it with r/unpaywalledwhatever

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lemmy admins, hold onto your butts

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