Technology

I bet it’s for the porn. I bet you he’s going to paywall the porn.

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.

Welcome. I came here, when they disabled RIF. Was it a year already?

....He does realize this isn't going to work on a platform that bans you for breathing the wrong way right?

Posts like this remind me just how grateful I am for the Fediverse.

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?

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.

Lets see what this app is about

It’s pretty crazy to watch enshittification play out in real time.

While I look forward to the continuing demise of Reddit, I'm not looking forward to the influx of even more Redditors.

I got offered a chance to buy into reddit's IPO. Im glad i didn't

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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wait, let me catch my breath, turning purple over here

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Woo! Paywalled porn subreddits! Commodify everything!! :D

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.

Why I'm here (first comment yay)

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