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Reddit Will Introduce Paywalls in 2025
- smcin 2y ago[flagged]
- fy20 2y agoFrom the article it sounds more like they want to introduce paid communities... which is not a bad idea. Many content creators have some sort of paid community, so if Reddit can take some of that market it could out work well for them.
- consumer451 2y agoThere’s a mod comment on WSB saying that they were invited to get pay-walled, and refused. It will be interesting to see if Reddit forces them to anyway. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/nyocKWohon https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/nyocKWohon
- AlienRobot 2y agoPaywalling /r/wallstreetbets of all things is such a terrible financial decision it's actually fitting.
- consumer451 2y agoJust realized that I had posted a non-old.reddit link from mobile. My mistake. https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/nyocKWohon https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/nyocKWohon
- thatguy0900 2y agoHonestly just sounds like reddit wants to get some of the only fans money, reddit is already filled with only fans girls advertising but they're not getting a actual cut of it.
- PenguinCoder 2y agoMore akin to patron or medium /substack I guess. They won't go all in on the NSFW only fans type of creators I'm sure.
- dvngnt_ 2y agopossibly, but taking money opens them up to the headache of visa mastercard issues relating to adult content. increased attention could get them removed from the app stores. they could also remove it
- boredatoms 2y agoAre there any clones of reddit out there that have a reasonable level of popularity?
- wahnfrieden 2y agoNo
- armaautomotive 2y agoIs Digg.com still around? This is a joke as back in the day reddit was the small fish.
- joeconway 2y agoJoking aside, Diggnation has returned and Kevin Rose has said a few times he wants to buy back Digg.com
- toomuchtodo 2y agoCan you build threaded convos on top of the AT Protocol? Subs->Topics, threads, users, tada! Edit: @freetonik much obliged for the reference.
- freetonik 2y agoThere was a post about that exact idea a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058285
- freetonik 2y agoSeems like there isn’t. But it’s weird, why not?
- thatguy0900 2y agoThe audience and the posters are the content, not enough people want to start posting and commenting on a dead reddit clone to get it off the ground to entice more people
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoEarlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058591
- satvikpendem 2y agoI just remembered that Tildes (https://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/) still exists, I wholly forgot about it. Anyone else using it these days, perhaps over reddit and even lemmy, mastodon etc?
- renewedrebecca 2y agoI honestly can't imagine paying for reddit. Especially when just being part of reddit creates the content they're hoping to sell.
- elevatedastalt 2y agoIronically the only thing for which Reddit is still a useful website is NSFW User Generated content on subreddits that focus on the NSFW bit and forbid any political or relevant discussion. Any typical sub today regardless of what the official topic of the sub is taken over by overly political content just barely reworded to fit the sub's topic.
- Vixel 2y agoPaywalls on people's content would work well if they have some type of revenue sharing, but paywalls on entire subreddits would be a disaster.
- _cenw 2y agoIt sounds more like they want to compete with either Patreon, OnlyFans or both. Though reddit as it is now is a horrible place to build a community. It's hard to keep bad actors out, but moderation (and the culture surrounding most moderation on reddit) is also completely opaque. So you simultaneously have a problem repelling trolls (participating in trans subreddits essentially guarantees hateful DMs), but you can also shape comments in their entirety to make a place a perfect echo chamber. Entrance fees might actually solve this problem.
- silexia 2y agoReddit is a far left wasteland. I would highly recommend using X instead, which is a balance of 48% Democrats, 47% Republicans and 100% entertainment.
- fluidcruft 2y agoI gave up on both X and Reddit because for whatever reason they're both annoying echo chambers full of edgelords.
- jambla 2y ago[dead]