Reddit CEO Suggests Some Subreddits Could Be Paywalled

Leonard Kelley@beehaw.org to Technology@lemmy.ml – 39 points – Reddit CEO Suggests Some Subreddits Could Be Paywalled
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Not even if they were the last SM on earth as far as I'm concerned.

What is everyone's thoughts on how that shit show is going to play out ?

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Please just end that site already.

Im not sure what's worse, that site or whatever crap twitter is now.

Edit: a word

I'm afraid it is still super useful for finding a quick answer to obscure Linux support questions.

That's true. The unfortunate downside of centralising or collective knowledge in private hands

I think about it as much as I do Facebook, twitter, and the turd I flushed this morning.

Could make sense. If they're smart, they're trying to get a cut of the "exclusive Discord", patreon, Substack kind of money flow.

If they're wildly stupid, they'll try to take over and paywall popular existing subreddits.

hmmm ...a balanced well thought reply....Thank you. I'd tend to agree with this analysis.

im cool with. pay wall them all. remove the accounts and all their data and history for those freeloaders who don't pay.

You aren't very bright are you.

does that need a /s. I don't feel like it should need one. Anyway I don't care what reddit does or does not do and I would think they would epically fail but twitter is still around sooo...

I’m reading this as a play to allow communities to have their own paid for areas and Reddit takes a cut in exchange for hosting this.

I recall a while back they were looking at a way to financially compensate major contributors and moderators, so possibly this idea is being revisited in a way.

Right now though, most people contribute to communities to share their knowledge or creativity and to connect with others- and monetisation might be there in the background but isn’t a first class feature of the platform. It makes business sense to make this play, even though it’ll make the site worse.

To conclude: Reddit becomes an only fans competitor. Calling it now.

I'm not sure if this is a good idea. Would people seriously pay just to access some subreddit? Why wouldn't they go on another forum?

Not my problem anymore.

Which ones would they paywall? The ones which would be the hardest sell for them would be the big meme subreddits, given how many other sites can be searched for memes.

I could potentially see them having some success paywalling all of the sub's where technical questions are asked looking for solutions to particular problems (think r/DIY). But then again you wouldn't pay just to have 1 question answered, and would generally just try a different forum if it could be answered elsewhere.