Sometimes we forget that the roof over our heads and the walls that hold it up are temporary. The store at the mall is temporary. The mall is temporary. The ground that the mall is on is temporary. Nothing last forever. Except for the stupidity of Steve Huffman, which seems boundless.
I’m hoping this will be a Patreon/OnlyFans situation where you can make a subreddit for your followers, art or whatever and not a thing where the big subs become $0.99/Month.
It will be the second thing, and it will be more than $.99
The handful of mods that control all the giant subreddits are going to rake it in for the remaining week or two reddit survives after this. This is going to be worse than streaming TV, imagine a subscription per series instead of per service.
That’s not fair!
You left out his greed
We’re gonna get more Reddit refugees when it happens.
That’s probably a good thing. More people are welcome, and it might take the edge off of Lemmy a little.
God I hope so.
Oh don’t get me wrong. I’m a Reddit refugee myself.
I moved over today, not becuase of this issue directly but because I have been looking for a reddit alternative for a while and saw someone mention lemmy in the thread about the topic.
It’s quieter but much more civilized here… for now.
Welcome!
- the average person does not care, and won’t pay for reddit. They do not use it in a way that makes sense paying for it like a subscription.
Redditors will care. Chronically online people will notice. Will it make money? Only from goobers willing to fall for it. It’s like a two part joke - unpaid mods couldn’t stand against the initial API changes because it meant losing the figment of imagination that they call power. Unpaid volunteers will now eat the other half of the joke - they’re going to PAY to moderate these subs. (As the sub will need a subscription presumably). Reddit investors are getting these people to be the joke that just keeps giving. Imagine paying to do work lmao
“Make Shit Worse Again”
Damn I actually think this is a good idea.
It wouldn’t be /r/politics but paywalled… they might even force the top X subs to be free.
It would be more akin to a Patreon community or a substack readership. There are paywalled communities around, who might like the reddit form factor.
Exactly what I was thinking. Depending on their payment systems this could eat into Patreon and OnlyFans.
Oh yeah paid NSFW subs that will definitely happen.
Hey guys it’s ok, Steve Huffman said Reddit is altruistic so he’s probably just helping society out of the goodness of his heart.
What is a reddit?
It’s like a shitty corporate-run Lemmy instance with no federated peers
It’s that horrible website that Google tries to link to, like Pinterest
Let’s watch that stock price.
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