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- technology@lemmy.world
- reddit@lemmy.world
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has hinted that in future some subreddits could be paywalled, as the company seeks to devise new sources of income.
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.”
This is another move likely to anger Redditors. While the platform is a commercial enterprise, its value derives almost entirely from freely offered user content. That means Redditors feel at least some sense of ownership in a community endeavour, so the company needs to tread carefully when it comes to monetization at user expense.
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…He does realize this isn’t going to work on a platform that bans you for breathing the wrong way right?
reddit ad remove
sudo rm -rf reddit*
Fuck spez
I want to switch aswell, but what is to stop bigger servers from doing the same on Lemmy?
Also where can I find the best instance for each of the Reddit equivalent? For instance I want wall street bets, where is the most active instance of that?
How about instead of paywalling. They just sort of concrete wall the entire site then leave it there too rot for all of eternity?
been telling everyone on the reddit post about this to ditch reddit for lemmy. this could be a really good thing for this platform
I am going to try to revive some of the dead subs in here with posts and engagement.
After seeing this article on Reddit, that’s what made me finally jump ship and join in here. It’s been nice so far.
Reddit is hardly even the same site it used to be. Especially with bots taking over. And I just don’t think it makes sense to make people pay for what was meant to be a user-generated experience. We’ve sadly come a long way from the narwhal baconing at midnight.
But here’s to new beginnings!
Reddit is a media company now, they’re not a community. Tons and tons of ads, thin skinned moderators with God complexes running completely out of control, and they now have platform profit responsibility.
Will cost them - this is a significant change to, by definition, some of their most popular content. Many people go to Reddit purely to find non-paywalled versions of content.
Bye reddit, it was fun while it lasted. Comments like this from out of touch ceos make me stop using the product. Same reason I canceled spotify after years of being a subscribing customer to move to Tidal
Morals aside, this wouldn’t work from a business perspective.
I don’t even get how this would work. If you paywalled, say,
/r/gaming, could you just make a new community called/r/freegaming? And do the moderators get paid for the communities they created?It all feels really half-baked and a desperate plea for money from investors when the money well is drying up.
that’s why i’m here
Why I’m here (first comment yay)
Go ahead. Only the occasional link brings me to reddit these days and I will treat his paywall just like all the others. By closing the tab and moving on.
Gave me the excuse to check this out. Makes me sad to kill my 11 year old Reddit account, but “needs must when the devil vomits in your kettle” as they say.
