People really need to remember how easy it is to create a forum of their own. There is literally no need to pay reddit for a niche community, when one can just be created in an afternoon. Hell, you can just spin up a community on Lemmy. But of course reddit will delete and block any posts with information about moving a subreddit somewhere off-site.
Who is "they"? You'll need to pay for hosting, and a domain, but that's like $5 per month and $20 per year, for one person. Nobody else would need to pay. I suppose the biggest issue is that most people don't know how to do that anymore, and nobody wants to. It used to be something people got excited about when they were passionate about a hobby.
Remove content they don’t like while pushing content in my face that I don’t want to see.
Between the constant ads and politically divisive subreddit recommendations that plague my Reddit experience, Lemmy feels like a breath of fresh air. I actually see the stuff I want to see, and am not having garbage pushed onto me.
The only way that it'll affect us is if they paywall existing subreddits that contain a ton of useful information. But you can't even find that information half the time anymore anyway, so I guess it's a wash.
I bet you ten to one we are going to get a super influx of redditors and I will bet you askhistorians will be behind a paywall which will be nice if the mosey on over here.
I think this is a great idea and they should implement it immediately. Spez is charting a bold new direction, fighting back against every instinct of logic or sanity.
Well shoot, I had no idea about this. I guess I picked a good time to check out lemmy. I was already tired of the ads disguised as posts, or constantly having subs I didn’t care about shoved in my face. So this just adds onto an existing list of reasons to bail.
He suggested that the company might experiment with paywalled subreddits as it looks to monetize new features. “I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has,” Huffman said. “But now we will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas, things of that nature.”
Frankly, it sounds like he wants to take on OnlyFans, or more prosaically, Patreon? I guess? I suppose as a platform to host paid interactions with people who think they have unique content and interesting takes, Reddit's as good as any, but the upside seems limited here.
I would like this idea if the paid subreddits weren't also scraped for AI training. I'm not paying to feed LLMs. But I'm increasingly getting into private communities.
ROFL Way to sink a vessel sooner, CEOs are so ridiculous! I used to care, but now that I have no skin in the game; I just laugh. Or fight if they try to bring their bullshit to another platform.