I bet it’s for the porn. I bet you he’s going to paywall the porn.
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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That's why I'm here testing Lemmy.
Sad if it ruins reddit since I like that place.
This post on Reddit reminded me that I made a Lemmy account long ago.
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....He does realize this isn't going to work on a platform that bans you for breathing the wrong way right?
Yeah. 4 accounts getting randomly banned was enough for me. This will just prey on the clueless who don't know your account can get shadow banned for any reason (or no reason).
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Medium's paywall gets lots of hatred, but at least they use it to pay the authors of the paywalled posts, so it kind of makes sense - you pay to consume content and get payed to create content. But Reddit is a forum, not a blogging platform - the separation between content creators and content consumers is much more blurred. If a subreddit gets paywalled, then the Redditors who create the content there - both the posts and the comments - will need to pay. Which will instantly ruin these subreddits when most of the posters will just take their posts elsewhere.
Did Reddit decide to imitate the business model of academic journals?
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I don't even get how this would work. If you paywalled, say, /r/gaming, could you just make a new community called /r/freegaming? And do the moderators get paid for the communities they created?
It all feels really half-baked and a desperate plea for money from investors when the money well is drying up.
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Posts like this remind me just how grateful I am for the Fediverse.
Lets see what this app is about
While I look forward to the continuing demise of Reddit, I'm not looking forward to the influx of even more Redditors.
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Do it. Fucking do it, man, I WANT it to happen. Mash that self-destruct like there's no tomorrow, Spez, see how low you can go!
Hey! I just read this on Reddit before I made this account! 🥲
"How DARE you take your subreddit private? Then Google can't index it and people can't access it! I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DO THAT!" - spez
Lol glad to move to lemmy
that's why i'm here
They already are. They put all nsfw content behind a privacy paywall (pay with email and browsing habits). Luckily it can still be subverted through old.reddit.com - but the question is for how long.
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And that’s one of the reasons that brought me here.
Maybe it was the permanent banning for creating another account trying to talk to a mod that had banned me in a way I thought was harsh, and muted me before I could even speak.
Regardless, Reddit is starting to remind me of when Digg took a massive shit like 15 years ago. And saying that makes me feel old.
As long as I’m not dealing with AI chatbots spamming these communities, I think I’ll like it here.