“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.”
Lol I was just about to post this. Yeah this is a decision for sure. Wouldn’t be surprised if this causes another big spike in Lemmy usage
May it be so.
Probably not. People will hang onto stuff because “everybody’s there” and “but lemmy doesn’t have enough content” 🤷♂
I think it could be the “digg v4” of reddit. People want to use the most popular free platform. If faced with a paywall on reddit, they’ll just go somewhere else. Most likely people will go over to Threads, but maybe some will find Lemmy.
Don’t forget “it’s too complicated”
“Selecting a server is too complicated”. Won’t ever understand that.
But what if I pick the server with all the furries? 🧐
We can file that under: expanding worldviews.
Well probably the average Joe may not even know what a server is, not even being able to chose a server which is the best suited for him.
Spikes are not that interesting. In fact, hey can harm more than be useful (server problems during peak, maybe for days, sudden cost increase for maintainer) if its not an organic and slow increase. The longterm conversion rate is much more important.
Yep, this is good for Lemmy
“Unlock the door” is a really strange way to say “lock the door.” What a dolt.
Sounds like a way for them to tap into the OnlyFans market…
Sure, but also the broader “join my Patreon to get access to my Discord server” market. It’s actually a pretty clever move, if there’s a market for it (there is) and if it replaces more insidious revenue streams (it won’t).
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was exactly what he was referring to.
We need to shore up all the porn instances for the coming wave of users - it only makes sense that’s what they’d wall off.
I can’t think of any audience that would be worse to interact with for Only Fans type content than redditors.
It’s the Conservative/Elon Musk version: censorship and lies are “Freedom of Speech”, falsehoods are truth, everything is projection, etc.
hahahaha…altruistic…hahahahahahahaha…grow…hahahahahahaha
Altruistic. ALTRUISTIC.
Usually 1984 comparisons are whack, but this is some “Ministry of Love/Peace/Truth” shit where you coat all the terrible things you do with a glurgy layer of ultra-positivity.
He has no idea what that word means. The word he is looking for rhymes with needy.
I remember a quote from spez a while ago where he basically said reddit isn’t profitable, so we’re not going to stop until it becomes profitable. Apparently that translates to “our platform isn’t profitable, so we’re not going to stop fucking it up until it becomes irrelevant.”
I like how companies not being profitable never stops people there from paying themselves millions of dollars.
Reddit would surely have to ban users from creating new subreddits for certain (previously allowed) topics, or else users would just create an alternative “free” subreddit and everyone would post there, right? This can’t work like something like YouTube Premium originals or else they’re going to have to pay certain popular people to post to the paywalled subs - but nobody uses Reddit to follow individuals.
“You’re not fooling anyone, r/TigTooty - banned.”
So basically Reddit wants to be OnlyFans?
There’s gonna be some really interesting subreddit names in the future then
There’s already r/OnlyVans, but it’s not very high volume.
Slowly running the site right into the ground. This shit ain’t gonna work.
Oh, no! Anyway…
Fuck spez.
Dude, what a bummer. Like, I’m glad we have lemmy but there’s certain subs and such that reddit had that aren’t available here.
On one hand it has completely cured my reddit addiction, which is awesome. I’ve put a lot of time into more productive endeavors. But on the other hand, I do miss finding niche subs that had amazing communities.
Aaron Swartz wouldn’t have wanted this
Good good! Let the exodus to Lemmy begin!
Give me your trolls, your shitposters, your politically challenged yearning to breathe hate. The wretched refuse of society’s most failed. Send these, the angry and brain-tossed to me, I open the ports on the router to Lemmy!
The language sorta implies existing subreddits won’t be paywalled, but I really don’t believe it. Reddit has no problem taking shit away from its community
So basically r/lounge?
I imagine they’d be eyeing things like having a partnership with patreon so patrons get access to an exclusive subreddit at a certain tier (with reddit getting some cut). Not saying patreon specifically would go for that but I imagine that type of monetization is what they’d be mostly considering. Or maybe a better example would be something in the realm of substack. Paying directly for access is hard to get people to go for without a third party with financial incentive to drive content.
There are private/paywalled Discord servers and forums out there, too, so this could replace some of those. I think the Reddit format is better than a lot of alternatives, so I don’t actually hate this idea.
It could also provide an alternative to patreon’s usual communities for patrons (aka discord lol)
What an absolute disaster, you gotta love it