When asked about “new, key features that you plan to roll out for Reddit in 2025,” Huffman responded, in part: “Paid subreddits, yes.”
Reddit’s paywall would ostensibly only apply to certain new subreddit types, not any subreddits currently available. In August, Huffman said that even with paywalled content, free Reddit would “continue to exist and grow and thrive.”
A critical aspect of any potential plan to make Reddit users pay to access subreddit content is determining how related Reddit users will be compensated. Reddit may have a harder time getting volunteer moderators to wrangle discussions on paid-for subreddits—if it uses volunteer mods at all. Balancing paid and free content would also be necessary to avoid polarizing much of Reddit’s current user base.
This is good. It will drive more people away from Reddit.
Welcome to any reddit refugees that might be reading these comments! we are cool beeple, i promise
You forgot some other instances of not so cool people.
By the way, isn’t there somewhere written in your instance’s website that “this isn’t like Reddit” or something?
The part about not wanting this to become Reddit is more about content and site ethos, not size.
And sure, there are some ex-redditors whose views may not be welcome here, but there’s no need to put disclaimers in every comment.
Not sure what you are trying to get at?
Paid subreddits. I mean look at the free to play live service games, how people like to buy stuff that not everyone has. We can laugh as much as we want and think how dumb this is. But people are dumber. It will drive away some people from Reddit, most won’t care and just stay using the “Free” stuff. Some will pay for the subreddits.
Maybe NSFW content or support subreddits for paying customers.
That was the avatar NFTs: most people didn’t care, some jumped on the FOMO and paid through the nose to “catch them all”.
If they had opened that to 3rd party apps, even as a requirement to use the API, or better yet if they gave a cut to 3rd party apps, instead of blindly charging for the API, they could have got a great net to catch whales, while most people would just ignore it and keep contributing their time (mods) and content (comments).
Instead… well, this.
Spez: “hmm. Have we fucked ourselves enough? How can we enshittify harder?”
There’s a guy-thrown-out-window meme in there.
I wonder if it’ll be the porn.
Of course it will be the porn.
Great way to lose all of the traffic. This would require two things:
- Accounts, which is automatic friction. Whether that’s people who have no account and only come to browse, whether that’s people having to make a second account or choose to be horny on main, this is definitely going to cause some user loss.
- Willingness to pay reddit for porn, which like, no. They’d be better off giving paid user pages and simply taking a cut so OnlyFans creators can treat reddit similarly. I don’t think many people are gonna want to pay for what amounts to teasers for other paid options.
Additionally, this would mean reddit is acknowledging the porn on their site and taking responsibility for it by profiting off of it. Therefore, because reddit is an American company, this will kill off their audience in Texas and Oklahoma where, effectively, American-hosted porn websites are banned.
There is no content on Reddit valuable enough that I would pay for access to it.
Sadly there is… Recently I found an old post where someone was sharing a script to integrate Thunar’s bulk rename into Nemo as an action…
There’s still valuable info out there and that’s kinda depressing to still search the web and always fallback to a reddit post :/.
I recently saw one of my blank posts on Reddit and almost regretted running the mass eraser…
…Nah, fuck that site. 😂
wish I had done it.
🤣😂
lol. ok I really need to go through and replace all my content with “f spez” comments. I haven’t logged into that account in a long time.
I wish had erased all my comments before being banned. I used to participate to a legal subreddit and provided lots of legal comments and suggestion about civil law that they now can use.
My theory is that they’ll put all of the default subs behind the paywall.
I don’t think the option to put some subreddits behind a paywall is necessarily a bad thing. Hopefully the federated link aggregators are in a better place now to absorb another exodus if reddit does scare off a bunch.
