That dude is really trying to kill his own platform, isn't he?
Taking lessons from Elon.
Maybe they need to charge users a monthly fee and add blue check marks. Lol
Taking lessons from Elon.
Wasn't Huffman singing Elon's praises after the Twitter purchase?
It's kind of indicative of how bad the web has gotten that twitter and reddit still have users. Digg completely imploded over much less than this. Just that back in 2010, there was somewhere else to go.
inb4 Lemmy. I get it, but we're not there yet.
I love Lemmy but I really, really miss the old web. Back when people would just create their own website and put it out there to share their niche interest with the world. People just organically linked their sites to each other to form web rings, an easy method of federation without any reliance on sophisticated server-side software.
Quarterly reports demand that line go up.
The line must always go up.
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
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.
“I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has,” Huffman said.
There's nothing 'altruistic' about reddit
If anything, they're the ones benefiting from altruistic users giving them free labor to profit off of.
What’s next? Change the name of the platform to Y.com?
Then following up by threatening to sue all the users who deleted the comments they made and left
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.
lol I saw this on reddit and was like fuck it, and made a lemmy account.
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.
I think this comes down to what the intentions are
Paywall /r/videos? Fuck off.
But create a system like Patreon where a content creator can put their own content and interact with their own users and there's a revenue share between reddit/creator that doesn't sound terrible.
If they're gonna do it on Patreon, why not try and lure them to reddit?
Why do all of these companies decide they are so tired of existing?
It's the final stage of the pump n dump.
After seeing this article on Reddit, that’s what made me finally jump ship and join in here. It’s been nice so far.
Reddit is hardly even the same site it used to be. Especially with bots taking over. And I just don’t think it makes sense to make people pay for what was meant to be a user-generated experience. We’ve sadly come a long way from the narwhal baconing at midnight.
But here’s to new beginnings!
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Wouldn't the contributors to those subs just make a new one that's not paywalled?
Reddit is going to be asking users to pay to generate content on specific subs, but they're forgetting again that the sub isn't the important part, it's the users.
This would just fracture the biggest subs and destroy the communities.
What's going to stop people from creating a new community and migrating the second reddit pay walls it.
Oh pics is now paywalled, looks like everyone is using pics_free
"Oh pics_free exists let's quickly ban that community before we loose revenue ... I mean because they violated the rules"
Fuck Spez
Porn, they're going to monetise it.
I always wondered when they will do it. They have the set up.
i love seeing so many new accounts in the comments
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.
So...this is for porn.
Only fans, but on Reddit.
I suspect it will work out sickeningly well for them.
Just joined because of this. Hopefully I’ll be able to leave that cesspool.
Saw this on Reddit 20minutes ago. Saw someone post about lemmy… now I’m here lol
I hate how everything has to be monetized nowadays, or how money is to be expected for everything. Eventually people who provide free service or altruism will be seen as competition.
Just created an account here because of this.
Just joined, gonna see how I like it then probably move over and leave Reddit.
I dont usually upvote posts about Reddit...
...but when i do they're shooting themselves in the foot
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
