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.
there’s no way to monetize lemmy, right?
just making sure i’m on the right liferaft…
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.
Just don’t get too attached, Reddit was Digg’s liferaft… Once Thing go to shit, move on.
Maybe yes, but realistically no. It’s open source, so anyone could make their own clone of it with whatever monetization methods they want. If you ran an instance, you could also charge people to post on it. That said, with the way Lemmy is organized, people would just leave the offending instance for a different one.
Reddit’s mechanics are not the whole story about why it became the juggernaut it is, the platform of people making their own forums isn’t new. What happened was a few major sites like Digg, Somethingawful, Fark, 4chan and a lot of old-school staples on the internet from the 90’s on through the 2010’s suddenly lost popularity as their user base matured at the same time reddit moved in. There were other factors, sure I was around during it all but it’s all quite complicated, but I’m pretty sure if reddit broadly started returning 404’s tomorrow, Lemmy would see a slight jump in users but people are just going to want the next new thing and it would be some entirely new thing that captures the world’s online browsing.
I’ve never seen a website replace another by copying it’s layout and mechanics. I’ve seen a lot of popular platforms die, but never resurrect in the same form, people always want something novel and they want to feel like they’re getting in ground-floor on something special. Reddit still offers that by giving users a chance to contribute early to conversations about current events, but if there were a new system that gave people a similar system and found some other way to give users a little serotonin boost like the votes do, then it would slay reddit pretty handedly.
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?
Wait REQUIRING?
so if a sub gets popular enough they can just say “pay wall.”
No one said he was a rocket surgeon.
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.
Just remember, when the barrier to entry is low then the quality of participants declines.
This is demonstrably false.
When the barrier is monetary, are you really getting the best folks?
A quick visit to Twitter would make the answer abundantly clear - no
Well I think we’re gonna see another influx
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.
Yea, I’m one.
one of us one of us
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.
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
seems like its posted around the same time reddit started banning people in large numbers.
Oh, so that’s why I saw some post about reddit alternatives and the person replying had to mask lemmy. Oh wow.
Can confirm. That’s why im here. Figured I’d just jump earlier with the whole avoiding US companies vibe too.
Let me guess. These will be the AI-content subreddits, right?
Nope, the NSFW and OF ones.
They’re trying to direct creators to stay on Reddit instead of just using it for an advertising platform
Each time I visit a reddit link and see the word “Deleted” in OPs post, my heart fills with joy.
I deleted my history on reddit (10+ years) and am moving over here. Still figuring out how to find the communities I want but I’ll get it.
Lmfao that’s hilarious
Guys, Gals, my non-binary pals.
I hope you understand the assignment.
i usually suck at homework but i think i might understand this assignment :3
Interesting article. Clearly says the pay groups would be new groups and this wouldn’t affect any existing groups.
probably going to bury the “free” groups til they cant be seen in a feed, and promote the paid ones to the front page 100% of the time. much like how youtube does it, the most “paid” popular channels get 100% front page coverage.
Sure, until they A- arbitrarily change that once people have gotten used to the new normal, or B- game the system and find an excuse to kill off profitable subreddits knowing the community will just turn around and spin off a new one… thus having to start requiring a subscription.
Assuming that’s true, all they have to do is close down any sub they want a subscription from. New sub is made, new sub is required.
Subreddit takes on a whole new meaning.
That’s assuming they don’t look at a sub and just say “you’re now paid, congrats” and the mods just go along with it. I can see greedy mods seeing the ability to profit from that kind of forceful hand and then complaining about disengagement.
That’s how it always starts, then they’ll widen it a bit more “Ok now we’ll include subreddits that were created within 3 months of announcement” then a bit more “ok now within a year” then a bit more “ok now if it’s a buy/sell subreddit with > 1M subs”
And then before you know it, you need to pay 1.99/month to access r/memes.
Oh but don’t worry! I’m sure they’ll come out with an “unlimited” tier that’s 49.99/month!
It’s not like a company would ever lie to the public for money. They definitely wouldn’t ever think of slowly rolling back free services and monetizing them… I mean where would anyone even get that idea about a tech company?
I forget the word for this, outpoopification? Insufficification? It escapes me.
enshittification
Spezification?
Xitterfecation
Diarheageddon
LoL, bye bye. Not sad, tho’ we’re building a whole new place here in Fedi-land! Whee!
Welcome to Lemmy former redditors
Thanks. I just switched - apparently just in time!
Me too friend!!
The revolution will be televised; behind a paywall.
The revolution will have a subscription.
You will not own the revolution and you will like it.
Thanks, I love you too.
Yeah I signed in for the first time in like a year right after seeing this lol
The only subreddit you need is
r/redditseppuku
