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.
Ouroboros? Such a fun word.
OnlyReddit
It’s for the porn. And think about the shareholders.
I wish more people thought about the Pornholders.
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.
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.
The enshitification continues…
I run a paid lemmy community, I mean I’m the one paying for it (it’s not expensive to do)
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.
nah, they just give some more power to the 92 powermods, the ones that own 500 subs, to control the content, and probably gatekeep which subs will be paywalled.
Reddit as a platform and subculture is toxic for democratic discourse
subcultures, theres more than one. depending on the sub too.
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
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.
There’s an audience for everything, niche stuff like nutsack tiddies probably pays very well.
Speak for yourself.
Stick your tits on Lemmy. There are porn instances, too. 🫣
not paid ones. God damn it
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.
Yay reddit getting more shit makes Lemmy better.
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.
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.
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.
I used to consider it a way to highlight a comment that I thought others should see. I have no idea if it holds the same power now, since gold, platinum, and a million other little “award badges” are now available. Yet once upon a time, seeing a gold icon next to a comment seemed to draw people’s attention. If a comment got gilded early, you’d see a huge difference in upvotes and replies for that particular comment.
Wow… Wow.
Too big to fail? We’re going to see about that.
Reddit goes the way of Digg.com
Bout time really. I felt like a frog in the slowly boiling water over there. They had plenty of opportunities over the years to improve things, and now this is where it’s at…
