Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
arstechnica.com
How will Reddit generate content for paid-for subreddits?
    • major_jellyfish@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Can confirm. That’s why im here. Figured I’d just jump earlier with the whole avoiding US companies vibe too.

    • Dogsoftulkas@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Yep, hi, here am I. Usually I think news like these are fearmongering for clickbait, like those old “Facebook is going to be paiiidd!” (As if “being free” wasn’t at the very core of its appeal and selling point) but reading the room this day and age I don’t think I’d be that surprise if a change like that did happen to Reddit. The only good think about this shitstorm of an age is that it made me find the fediverse and I will never forgive myself for not caring enough to find it earlier.

      • shneancy@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        a few days ago i saw how r/redditalternatives has only “lemmy bad!” posts and i know for a fact folks here have been spreading the word about lemmy in a positive way so don’t blame yourself, reddit has been actively censoring any good thing said about lemmy or the fediverse in general

        i looked marginally deeper into this and it’s apparently all the way to shadow bans :) link

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          seems like its posted around the same time reddit started banning people in large numbers.

        • Dogsoftulkas@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          Oh, so that’s why I saw some post about reddit alternatives and the person replying had to mask lemmy. Oh wow.

    • sudo@lemdro.idEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Same, just got fed up about all this bullshit and degoogled every device in my life, as time passes we get more and more exploited by these giant companies.

  • SilentKettle@lemmy.wtf
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    2 months ago

    Seems like a bad time to be introducing such a thing in the immediate future when European users are already seeking out alternatives to US tech giants and US users are losing their jobs and facing rising grocery prices.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Lemmy will need ads to support individual servers, eventually, when they’re not attached to another org (like a server CNN would run for just outgoing news dissemination). The rest of them, with bills and needing to eat, may need to go to ads.

      I support proper ads that do not get priority placement and aren’t in-your-face.

      I support prioritization of profile migration so we can vote with our feet if a particular server’s ad volume and content offends our sensibilities.

      But I’m just saying I fully expect some ads are gonna happen, and I hope we can prevent full enshittification when that happens.

      • mutant_zz@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        No, it will never have ads. If the devs put ads in, it will get forked. If server admins put in ads, they will be defederated. That’s nonnegotiable if you want a free (as in libre) fediverse.

        Mastodon is way bigger than Lemmy and it doesn’t need ads. Donations and subscriptions (for severs that choose that path) are enough.

        • Yppm@lemy.lolEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I don’t want it to have ads either but bandwidth is not free and someone somewhere is paying for it.

          Is the donations don’t cover the bills there are few options.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    To be honest, this is actually a genius move when it comes to NSFW content.

    Almost every pornographic sub has already been astroturfed by e-girls plugging their OnlyFans and Fansly links. Giving them the ability to paywall their content directly on Reddit effectively cuts out the middle-man and allows Reddit to undercut the likes of OF and Fansly with lower transaction fees.

    • Kaput@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Just don’t get too attached, Reddit was Digg’s liferaft… Once Thing go to shit, move on.

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      there’s probably a way to monetise everything but with the numbers of Linux people (yes we know you use arch shush) and anti-capitalists, i think we’re safe?

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      This site isn’t going to get popular enough to worry about. It’s large, sure, but people go to reddit because the sheer volume of users means your chances of catching breaking stories or real contributions by witnesses to events, is just much higher, there’s more of everything, and this is why they want to bleed it dry.

    • Nebula_Express_93462@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Same, fresh refugee here. I’ve tried mastodon before and I didn’t feel good with Fediverse, but only because I never really used Twitter. Surprisingly I only discover Reddit few weeks ago (to properly spend some time there… where was I all these years lol) I’m starting to like this fediverse though 😁

    • FackCurs@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Welcome! Hope you like it here. I’m happy to see people are jumping ship despite the “it’s too complex to switch to Lemmy” false narrative.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    service that owes its popularity largely to its low barrier to entry signals higher barriers to entry

    cool! please do.

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The whole reason reddit became as popular as it is now is because of bots in the beginning. The founders admitted as much.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        and bot is the reason its still active, i think i read a reddit post about how most of the bots on the site are from places like RUSSIA, sowing dissent with thier troll farms. it make sense since reddit isnt doing much to removing much of those bots, instead targeting people like us and OF FANs. as soon as they did thier usual purges of bots, which include some from RU, reddit because eerily quiet and non-engaged(nobodies raging about what the other party did in alrge numbers), and the well known conservative subs, are silent. until the troll farms reorient thier trolls to come back. its easier for them to evade bans, because of thier resources. on some posts that were discussing it, reddit doesnt do enough against them.

      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        In the great reddit to lemmy migration of 2023, a lot of users complained about the lack of content and engagement on lemmy. A number of lemmy moderators who came from reddit basically said the same thing and that they were working on deploying bots over here.

        It looks like they did make some progress as there is a lot more content than there was 2 years ago. However, SOOOOO many niche subs just do not exist over here yet. Including most of my favs.

        I am not that interested in linux or computers anymore.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          i was looking at subs on here that were some of the ones i frequent on reddit, yea its a deadzones in some of the niches, no content for a year, i think alot of them went back to reddit. the ones that stay are usually the ones that get banned from reddit. the ones that are currently evading bans are on another forum(not associated with lemmy or reddit, im in one of those sites)

  • buzz86us@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

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