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Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO

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.

aeharding ,
@aeharding@vger.social avatar

Oh no. anyways

frezik ,

Right, you guys keep on penning that really long suicide letter.

friend_of_satan ,

“How DARE you take your subreddit private? Then Google can’t index it and people can’t access it! I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DO THAT!” - spez

DandomRude , (edited )
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This is a terrible idea for a site that relies solely on user-generated content and even user-moderation. It’s not like Twitter hasn’t tried this before - didn’t work out so well, I’d say. But hey, this concept probably works for the upper management. I guess it doesn’t matter to them if all that’s left is scorched earth, as long as they can cash out.

alien ,

But they’re going to split the profits with content generators users, right? Right?

DandomRude ,
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Sure, 1$ for 5.000 high quality posts - but only if it is content that you would otherwise only find in scientific journals; no AI stuff, of course.

postmateDumbass ,

Reddit: what are users for but to extract money from?

witx ,

The truth is in the better days of Reddit I would’ve paid 2 or 3 dollars to access Reddit if that helped maintain it sustainable and if some of that money reverted to mods. Now? Reddit can burn

a_guy_at_home ,

That was the first sales pitch for Reddit gold. That they just needed a couple bucks a month to pay for the servers. Lots of power uses back then did just that, and felt pretty good about themselves. There were people also arguing even then that anybody who paid Reddit’s bills for them was an idiot, but lots of people did.

witx ,

I mean I get their feelings. Netflix et Al started with reasonable prices and then the greedy fuck heads raised the prices, so I bet Reddit would do it as well.

Speculater ,
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I definitely bought Reddit gold to support them. Then they got all greedy. Today I pay Sync for a nice app and donate to my Lemmy and Mastodon hosts.

thehatfox ,
@thehatfox@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah this feels like a move that would have worked a lot better before Reddit had burned a bunch of bridges with their most active users.

The pool of people with enough goodwill to pay now is likely small, and shrinking. The causal new users probably are that keen to pay up either.

KingThrillgore ,
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StealThisComment ,

Burn, baby, burn!

Anarki_ ,

Woo! Paywalled porn subreddits! Commodify everything!! :D

CafecitoHippo ,

I can’t even imagine the creators in those subreddits would be thrilled since so many of them seemingly use those subs as a free advertising spot for their onlyfans. More of them are trying to be creative with overtly sexual questions in askreddit and people just stumbling in to their profile.

Anarki_ ,

Oh I promise someone will at least try.

CafecitoHippo ,

Oh they already are. But if they start making porn subs like gonewild as paid services, those users are going to push the limits of whats allowed in other subs to try and just get people to stumble into their profile.

Anarki_ ,

And the shit train goes on…

PolydoreSmith ,

No! That’s all I use Reddit for nowadays…

Ilovethebomb ,

I mean, it’s not like it’s a new concept, is it?

ruk_n_rul ,

Aaron Schwartz didn’t die for this.

sunzu ,

The decent ones always either die or turn into a boomer parasite

violetraven ,
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The sad thing is yeah, he did, and Alex Ohanian played Switzerland

index ,

reddit ad remove

Telorand ,

sudo rm -rf reddit*

WatDabney ,

Altruistic? ALTRUISTIC?!

Just who in the fuck does he think he is?!

The only altruists on Reddit are the users who freely provided the content that this fucking parasite feeds off of.

I’m so glad I left that awful shithole of a site.

BradleyUffner ,

And the moderators

ShepherdPie ,

Yeah that word choice is quite a bold strategy after all the bullshit they’ve put their revenue generators (the users and mods) through over the last couple years.

g0nz0li0 ,

This got under my skin too.

That parasite constantly refers to user content and comments and as being the property or Reddit, and his schemes to generate profit off the back of that asset are almost always to the detriment of the user base who are keeping him in business.

Like all rich assholes, he’s got this expectation that everyone will deeply respect and admire his mission to enrich himself by exploiting whatever market he has access to.

IchNichtenLichten ,
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Now the IPO is done Reddit has to continually feed the investors at the expense of the quality of the thing that’s supposed to make money to feed the investors.

This is gonna be fun.

RobertoOberto ,

They don’t care as long as they can get in, make a few bucks, and get out. Long-term stability isn’t the priority anymore, just quick profits.

Nusm ,
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So, I’m not a tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but I absolutely believe the theory that Spez & Musk are being paid handsomely under the table by dark money to do their best to ruin Reddit and Twitter. It was the two largest places that liberals congregated, communicated, and publicly posted, and the right wing wants to hamper and/or destroy both sites. I think both are seriously compromised now, and many of the left have fled. In the case of Twitter, it’s just turning into Truth Social lite, and Spez is trying to monetize what’s left of Reddit as fast as he can to rake in cash off what’s left of the dying carcass/bot farm.

sunzu ,

Cute of you to assume this is right v left issue... actually it dilatory.

This was always bottom v top...

Atrichum ,

I am 100% convinced Twitter is being intentionally destroyed by a cabal of evil oligarchs and nation states.

wildncrazyguy138 ,

So then they’ll move here, not such a bad deal.

But then, who makes sure that ActivityPub doesn’t sell out?

echo ,

Paywall all of them… don’t care. Why do you think I’m on Lemmy?

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

I’m glad I’ve overwritten all my comments.

The easiest tool: PowerDeleteSuite
Don’t forget to make the script prepare a backup file and download it once complete. In the replacement string, link to your Lemmy account so that anyone looking for the content can just PM you.

puppy ,

If only there was a free and open platform as an alternative to Reddit.

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