How will Reddit generate content for paid-for subreddits?
    • JarasM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Most of the terrible stuff Reddit did only affected a tech-literate minority, at least knowingly. Most users didn’t use 3rd party apps so they didn’t even understand what the uproar was about, and we should know perfectly well people don’t care about their privacy.

      In contrast, this change is likely to affect day-to-day habits of at least some people.

    • gndagreborn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      There is also an inherent kind of entitlement that people have. Putting the lack of visibility of privacy on the totem pole of priority, people like free things. When you start to charge them for an objectively worse service, you tend to piss off your user base.

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    So sounds to me like… reddit’s looking to compete with say patreon etc… IE allow people to post content either early to payers, or release some things exclusively to payers.

    Obviously the value of that will depend on how big of a cut reddit goes after, and assuming they don’t try and move existing participant focused subreddits to it.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I’ve got a couple of reports that this is not about the Fediverse. It took me a while to be able to look at the reports and since some almost entirely Lemmy-focused discussions have taken place, so I’m leaving this post up because of the discussions.

    This is not a precedent to post random off topic stuff, though.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    I hope so. Enshittification means people get more incentive to look for alternatives, making the internet more decentralized. Reddit CEO doing his part!

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I don’t care about using Reddit because I don’t, but if they paywall things people use Reddit to deshittify Google searches for, that’ll be bad.