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5d ago

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

arstechnica.com Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

How will Reddit generate content for paid-for subreddits?

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Reddit is just a bunch of bots, jerking each other purple. They don't have any content worth locking.

That's one sure way to kill the platform
- Could work well if it is implemented like a patreon community.
  
  In Patreon, the users are selling their content, in this case Reddit is paywalling user content without paying the users.

Get ready for the influx of new users
- hi, im one of those new users. Have a beautiful day friend.
  
  I am now on my third attempt let's see if this one sticks
  
  Who you calling friend, pal? \s (I hope some folks know this 🤣)
- I was so happy when I found lemmy. A great alternative to reddit with a small and kind community. I hope it doesn't turn into the cancer that is reddit.
  I joined reddit in 2013. It was great until it wasn't
  
  I blame the 5 mods who control the top 200 subs. I still think posting was better years ago. Could actually post comments.

I don't really get it why would people want to post to a sub that hardly anyone can see and likely you won't get any good amount of karma.
likely I'm missing something but yeah I wouldn't pay to see a sub I'd just look for a free one which likely already exists.
- I don't think people really care about karma? Can easily farm that by bots or just by posting cats in place that likes cats.
  People on patreon are often using private spaces like Discord. This could work well for Reddit if done right

Prediction: This change comes to life, people make an uproar about this. Then they forget this in a few days and continue using reddit.
This same old keeps happening with reddit, Twitter/X, etc.
Hopefully we do receive some refugees to Lemmy!
- Reddit refugee here! Really enjoying Lemmy so far, I hope more and more people start jumping over
- I’m one. Hello all.
  
  Hi!
  For Lemmy usage my preferred approach is always sorting by all and blocking communities (and instances) I don't want to see instead of subscribing to the ones I do want to see. This way you get more content and dont miss new sublemmies! :)
  
  Welcome!
- Reddit likely won’t die from one bad change, it’s going to slowly die to attrition as they keep putting shit like this in.
  
  It's been slowly dying from attrition . It might be gaining users, but meaningful interactions and content production is down from 3 years ago.
- Well Reddit wouldn't be the juggernaut it is now if Digg hadn't done similarly stupid things and paid the ultimate price. Social media sites do fall, and Lemmy grows a little every time this happens. I honestly don't care. I like Lemmy how it is now.
- I see more and more people moving to Bluesky, which means Xitter is becoming less and less relevant by the day. Except for nazi shitheads, that is.

- niche communities that don’t exist on lemmy.
  
  There are some pretty basic communities that are non existent or dead on Lemmy and I hate it
  
  This is the reason. I can get all the Linux discussion I want on Lemmy, but discussions about an Acura RSX? That community does not exist here.
  
  Use RSS to read them.
- porn
  
  you mean onlyfans spam?
  
  Who the hell uses Reddit for porn?
- A lot of people dont use an app at all, much less third party apps, so the whole thing was lost on them to begin with, if they were even aware of it.

So Lemmy will have more this year
- I guess we can expect another burst of Reddit refugees
- One can only hope they’ll have the mind/willingness to.

I moved here and took a break from Reddit for a year after the whole API thing.
Recently been dipping my toe back in the water, lurking only.
It is noticeable that a lot of posts are obviously bot accounts trying to spur debate on contentious topics. And in general, it’s a sad echo of the community it used to be.
On the other hand, there are some communities there that are still pretty active and interesting just based on the sheer volume of people that still use Reddit. So it still has a place in my life… Kinda.
Only expect to get worse over time, it’s like a slow decline of a friendship

In other news, Lemmy will keep all its content open for free, making everything accessible to everyone.
- As a sidenote, do tip your instance operators, especially if you're on a small instance. Upkeep isn't free.

Enshittification? Man, who could have seen that coming?
/s

The site has become utterly useless. I got banned for god knows what, they don’t actually tell you. But just disagreeing with someone else and they report you and you’re auto banned without question.
I tried opening new accounts and every single one would be banned for evasion. I guess they track ip? In any case the users have become x10 more toxic and the site itself is trash
- I had multiple accounts suddenly they all got system error, which in Reddit means you are banned. They couldn't be bothered to implement a notification system to inform the users they were banned.
  
  I still have no idea why I was banned, nobody ever replied to me
- At least you got banned. Last time I tried to return in 2024, I was shadow banned. Zero indication that none of my comments were showing up until I saw the page logged out...

another dick move from spez! I'm sure the outcome would be more lemmybuds joining

I wonder if that's what all the banned subs thing was about. Maybe "some content" = NSFW subs
- i’m guessing older posts, maybe 6+ months. so basically any question you google with an answer on reddit.
  
  So if the accepted solution is behind a paywall, the question gets asked (and answered) over and over again. It's an insidious way to generate infinite content.

This is great news... for lemmy!

Amazing! Keep stepping on rakes, Reddit.

I've been thinking about this And the only thing I can think of spez wants to bring back his old sub reddit but it needs heavy paid modding.

Yeeeaaaah

lol

Well I will be no longer on Reddit then. I’m so sick of this fleecing us at every turn
- Really? Everything else was fine but this is a bridge too far?

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