Technology @lemmy.world ad_on_is @lemm.ee 2mo 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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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
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
  
  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?
- 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.
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
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 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
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.
Amazing! Keep stepping on rakes, Reddit.
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.
This is great news... for lemmy!
another dick move from spez! I'm sure the outcome would be more lemmybuds joining
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
Reddit is just a bunch of bots, jerking each other purple. They don't have any content worth locking.
Yeeeaaaah
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?
  
  Nope it’s been shit for a while it’s just the straw.
lol
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.

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