Reddit paywalls to hit this year as paid subreddits confirmed

Reddit goes the way of Digg.com

Too big to fail? We're going to see about that.

It is why I am here, the straw that broke the camels back. So at my wits end with it. From killing third party apps, forced ads jammed inbetween every post/comment, declining communities, autobans on nonsense, a UI that forces misclicks into awards instead of upvoting, and this paywall is only a signal of worse to come as they monetize content that is not even their own!
- Nice name, Kerrigan did nothing wrong
- Subscribe to Lemmy Premium for only $10/month to enjoy a tankie-free experience!*
  you may still see personalized propaganda
- I am here because i got perma banned in such a short time for being pro ukraine. Nothing happened for 7 years same behaviour and phrasing of comments. Then suddenly openly posting pro ukraine and BOOM 3 Days then 7 days then perma.
  And fuck reddit
  
  It's crazy that you can get banned for simply writing some pro-Ukraine comments, but it takes Reddit weeks, months, or years to suspend/ban people who send threats and literal predators. Today I was made aware of a subreddit called "r/Grownkids". The name is a reference to, I assume, teenagers under the age of 18, and the posts are filled with people sharing telegrams and other ways to communicate and "feed" each other -- presumably sending/sharing CP, given the name of the subreddit and the suspiciously vague nature of all of the posts wanting to take communications off-platform to fishy platforms like Telegram instead. This subreddit has over 3,000 subscribers. I reported a few of the posts. Reddit's bot immediately got back to me to tell me they were already reported, but they had determined that no rules were broken.
  As of posting, this subreddit is still up and likely won't be gone for weeks now.
  Fortunately, they were able to permanently ban you very quickly for supporting Ukraine, clearly the real problem on Reddit.
  Wow!
- Welcome Here, Jim! I hope that website burns to the ground.

Paywalls are a tacit admission that the business model is dreadful.

Paid subreddits lmfao
- what if it's got my tiddies in there
  
  No offense, but I don't think many people are looking to see a pair of Nutsack's tiddies.
- patreon accts, how some youtubes peddled thier patreons, and found out theres very little difference between the 2. might be different for a STEM channel.

Reddit as a platform and subculture is toxic for democratic discourse

Since Reddit is only a platform and the users provide the content (well mostly bots and reposts now), does that mean Reddit will pay users for their content? Personally, I wouldn’t pay one cent to read posts.

This is actually really good to hear because I have a bridge I've been trying to sell so having a whole community that I know is full of the most gullible people on the internet will really speed up the process

The enshitification continues…

I run a paid lemmy community, I mean I'm the one paying for it (it's not expensive to do)
!dullsters@dullsters.net

Wow... Wow.

OnlyReddit

Oh good! I can't wait to pay to generate content for their platform. /s

It’s for the porn. And think about the shareholders.
- First, they came for the gooners ....
- probably thats why reddit has banned OF accs en masse recently, they couldnt get money from thier OF promotions. im betting with the paid system, they will allow some form of approved botting for those channels in the form advertisements.
  
  OF creators have to go through a rigorous process to verify themselves. I can't imagine reddit doing anything close to that, but I might be wrong. If not, it will be a playground for scammers and stolen content.
- I wish more people thought about the Pornholders.

I compare Reddit to a snake eating it's tail.
- That describes all capitalist businesses. They always eventually cannibalize their own customers and services once growth slows.

Yay reddit getting more shit makes Lemmy better.

And reddit users will still suckle st Spez's teat
- the addicted powermods will fall in line, i bet and hide some of thier larger subs behind a paywall as premium content. i see the political subs doing this r./politics, r/news, r/conservatives these only 3 i know are the top subs especially since they are spammed on the front page.

OPEN AI and GOOGLE has been in cahoots with reddit, made sense since google allows reddit to use its CAPTCHA V3 system.
- Don't they have contacts to scrape data from Reddit for AI?

Bwahahaha, I can't really believe people would pay for that crap.
- Andrew Tate’s ”Hustler’s University” has 200k subscribers. Sadly this world has so many stupid people throwing their money to stupid things.

Haven't paid subreddits been a thing for a decade? /r/lounge being the main one, but anyone could make a subreddit and require gold to view iirc.
- What even was the point of lounge? I've been gifted gold and platinum several times and never really cared about posting there.
  Also unrelated but this reminds me of one time somebody faked dying of cancer to get gold. Like "I only have a month to live and I've never got gold" lmao
  
  I've been gifted gold twice and I never understood the appeal of it either, everything in there was self-referential both times I checked.
- There are quite a few subreddits that require vast amounts of karma points (like 12,000) to reply, and there are heaps that require high karma points to post, meaning you have to effectively buy them.
  
  That only impacts non-lurkers which is a little different.