Reddit CEO signals subreddits requiring a subscription fee coming this year

I hope all the lemmy instances are ready for a surge of users. Let's encourage redditors to join Lemmy and learn the kinks and quirks by trial and error. Let's be kind to the newcomers.

Well I think we're gonna see another influx

As soon as I read that I thought I'd make an account here.

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

cool! please do.

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.

Each time I visit a reddit link and see the word "Deleted" in OPs post, my heart fills with joy.

Just jumped the ship at the right time. The API wars were just a preview...

Time to move on over here I guess.

Let me guess. These will be the AI-content subreddits, right?

Lemmy admins, hold onto your butts

Wait REQUIRING?

so if a sub gets popular enough they can just say "pay wall."

No one said he was a rocket surgeon.

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.

So Reddit wants to move to a pay model, which would mean they'd have banking information on record for any user that might be of interest to the federal government.

No thank you.

Holy crap good thing I just moved to this platform!

Paywall forum, what can go wrong ?

Niche subreddits need to start archiving posts and wikis immediatly.

screw the haters I'm going to make a porn one. i am valid

there's no way to monetize lemmy, right?

just making sure i'm on the right liferaft...

I don't think that is a good idea.

A few years ago, everyone was wondering when Reddit would have its Digg moment

Any good Lemmy app recommendation that uses the latest material design for Android?

Welcome to Lemmy former redditors

Some subreddits, like r/Watchexchange, where Redditors “buy, sell or trade watches,” according to the subreddit’s description, are centered on transactions. Huffman said the fact that users are already “transacting on Reddit kind of opens the door” for such monetization.

"Hey! How dare you exchange things with each other without giving us a cut!"

Yes let's put a site that consists pretty much entirely of user-created content behind a paywall, what could possibly go wrong?

Guys, Gals, my non-binary pals.

I hope you understand the assignment.

It'll be the porn they charge for.

They know only wankers will give them money.

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.

Next wave of reddit exodus coming soon...

It's not even worth using for free

Curious to see the comments about it on Reddit

Edit:

Goodbye Reddit, Hello Lemmy.

I was going to say something snarky about how they're going to fail because who would pay for social media, then I remembered blue checkmarks.

Watch them fuck up the implementation and suffer the worst PR disaster in recent history when they slap a paywall on r/suicidewatch.

Recent recruit from Reddit. Finally made the jump. Love the apps like Boost, Thunder and Voyager.

fun fact: you dont have to use websites

Is fine hosting nazis and now is getting internal paywalls. I didn't know spez wanted to be Substack so bad.

Just keep doing the Fediverse favors Steve!

Eat shit spez!

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

Imagine paying actual money for shitty memes and mean comments.

I forget the word for this, outpoopification? Insufficification? It escapes me.

mfw someone makes r/paywalledwhatever then someone else mirrors it with r/unpaywalledwhatever

They should pay me to swallow US regime garbage.

CEO, tell me you don't know what you're doing without saying you don't know what you are doing.

Good. At this point reddit is just a weak sauce place for bots/marketers to post where other bots/marketers scrape them. It's rumored that 10% of their revenue is from content deals with Google. At this point, most of the interesting communities on reddit have gone elsewhere and it's long ago jumped the shark.

It's clear that the corporate goons in charge are busy just trying to squeeze any remaining nickles out of the userbase. At this rate it won't be long before a private equity firm buys reddit and you start seeing articles "Reddit: what happened?"

Too bad, it was a site that used to be so good and was sold out 5 ways to Monday and the corporate overlords have fucked it again. At least lemmy is around... it doesn't have the scale of reddit but it's way better in a lot of ways already.

like how every other comment has a new account flair

Hello to all the new users!

I hate reddit as much as the next guy but from time to time I find myself searching in subreddit like newborns, New parents etc. These subreddits do have a lot of experience shared from the past which has not yet come over to lemmy. And now reddit is pulling this subscription shenanigans I'm like WTF??

Ever been on /r/lounge? If you have you've probably got a pretty good idea of what to expect from these subs.

The bonfire is about to be lit.

LoL, bye bye. Not sad, tho' we're building a whole new place here in Fedi-land! Whee!

How many times does Spez have to whip his subjects before they will finally learn about fediverse alternatives.

This is amusing, in the day and age where everyone is tired about subscriptions everywhere???

Just. Fukken. Lol

Has the US collectively eaten something that tells them "Moar Tariffs"? It's as if Neoliberalism-Central got mercantilism cancer.

My understanding is that they want to offer monetized subeditors for content creators and influencers, a mush up between Patreon and onlyfans

OnlyFans creators gonna be eating good

Or are we talking about the fee going to reddit??

Edit: oh shit this is a premium for reddit access. Get the fuck out of here

Oh this is perfect!

All it would take would be 1 person paying the subscription and just reposting the content in a hundred other subs.

so glad i left a long time ago

This is a terrible idea but let me entertain it for a second.

Would this be like YouTube in which case content creators get a cut so they are incentivized to promote paid content (even though you don’t actually pay to subscribe to a channel).
Or would this be just Reddit holding some content out for ransom behind a paywall.
Or would this be some features that some paid subs have.
or would some subs be a marketplace in which you can buy and sell.

I don’t see any of these panning out except maybe the last one, but why wouldn’t you go to other sites like Etsy for that?

I'm sure this will turn out great (just kidding, I was using sarcasm there).

Lmfao that’s hilarious

Forever growing profits and money to grow the IPO this is the logical choice. I saw this comming. I left reddit a few months ago. Never been happier.

How is that different from the lounge?

It probably already exists in some form of private subs

So people will start using reddit alot less than they do anyway.

So the same MO as always. To take a stranglehold of the internet. "Creators" or "influencers" or whatever buzzword will be all over this as it's an opportunity to monetize. I'm sure reddit corporate will be taking their piece of rent seeking of course.

The bigger implication that everyone always ignores is that this is going to lock users into the walled garden. Up to now posters have been driving people off site. The comic artists are a good example. They post their comics as image posts. They direct people off site to access more content. They will no doubt jump on the chance to have a paid subreddit. This is an attempt to kill off whatever sites the artist use. If they had some other service providing monetization then that company is probably panicking a little right now.