good luck with that
Setting up the stage for a OnlyFans lookalike for all those wild reddit females
Frankly that’s about the only plausible customer base I could see for that.
Females? That’s so chauvinist. They prefer to be called M’ladys
haha, lol, paid subreddits:D
And I bet the mods won’t see a nickel of that revenue.
Oh they will it’s called exposure. Exposure from the radiation emitted from their monitor.
Look, Reddit search is already a shit show. Them overhauling it whatever way can’t possibly make it much worse anyway.
Paid subreddits though. I didn’t know we were already in April.
they’re definitely going to finally kill old reddit arent they
Schrodinger’s old. for me, I haven’t had a reason to check if it still exists, and will never see for myself that it does/has been killed.
Once they killed .compact I was done.
Left Reddit over a year ago, haven’t been back once. It was surprisingly easy, and a year on, it’s getting easier for others too.
I tried checking it out recently just for the amount of content. The site is unusable now. Don’t bother to comment anything beyond a useless lol comment or you’ll get banned for every little thing. The mods really went power mad over there
I left also, the API thing was the nudge I needed; I admit I’ve gone back for niche things: the fan groups of 2-3 bands and two TV shows. Reddit is their defacto fan forum for lots of things
I was desperately waiting for an alternative to show up years before even the API changes. Anything that came up got taken over by Nazis and died shortly after. Lemmy is the only one that manages to actually take off.
Eh, I’m still looking, but this one seems better than the others. I’ve been here a little over a year and it’s getting the job done.
I miss some of the more casual subreddits, and somehow Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is, but otherwise yeah, Lemmy is fine. Especially with the Photon frontend.
It makes sense, those that backed off Reddit were more than likely against Corpo greed while conservatives cheer it on. Lemmy was created by leftists supposedly and more left leaning people joined after leaving reddit so it’s no surprise. Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left so we were sort of destined to be an echo chamber unfortunately.
The only problem is the Lemmy creators are also bootlickers, just the boots were made by a different colonial holding. I’m very thankful for instances like lemmy.blahaj.zone, beehaw.org, and slrpnk.net, as well as to a lesser extent lemmy.db0.net, but the fact is there’s a large number of bootlickers here who like a different flavor of boot
Aww, DB0 appreciates you to a lesser extent too, buddy!
Almost joined there. Its a really good instance. Its just the core political philosophy is less directly aligned with me than the ones I listed. Again. Its a really good instance and I DO respect the core political philosophy, its just like… A slightly different kind of libertarian than I am to where its like… I’ll coalition with y’all but it would be disingenuous of me to claim to be part of your movement. Me speaking on what I believe while saying I’m aligned with y’all would hurt your messaging and I don’t want to hurt y’all like that
Tasty, tasty capitalist boots with a lipservice communism sticker on the heel.
Reddit kept the bootlickers and the lazy, Lemmy gained the anti-greed political left
sigh…
Lemmy is even more of an echo chamber than Reddit is,
Yeah I really miss the trumpers responding constantly to anything about him with absolute bullshit lies. That really added perspective to my worldview. Now, if we could only get some more people to join Lemmy who despise Linux /s
There are centrists and even conservatives out there in the world who have valid perspectives and values but who are not Trumpers.
Yes, valuable perspectives like UnIpArTy!!!1 and bOtH sIdEs!!!1
Edit: I want to agree with your sentiment though, really. I’m just jaded after several years of seeing disingenuous views expressed. Trump isn’t really one I can abide by letting off the hook but I’ve seen that attempted by MANY centrists to the point that I no longer can believe there exists a such thing as a “centrist”.
The worst part to me is the shadowbanning. It’s easy enough to tell if you’re shadowbanned (check subs or comment threads when signed out and in private mode to see if your stuff shows up), but you can’t see comments from other people who are shadowbanned. I want to see all points of view. And after the API changes, the sites for viewing removed or hidden comments stopped working :|
Hear hear
Shadow banning has been out of control on that site for years
LOL paid subreddits. ok, yea–let me PAY YOU for the privilege of providing content FOR YOU. LOL
get fucked. reddit is a toxic rotting husk of what it used to be. good riddance
Wasn’t that whole the concept behind that reddit gold exclusive subreddit? I’ve never been on there but I heard it was pretty barren anyway.
gold exclusive subreddit
i’ve been in there, and yea…how many posts about “yay we have gold and we have a subreddit only for us because we’re special” does it take before you start to think “this is about the most pointless thing ever…”
I was in the century club on there, it was actually a pretty nice group of folks. Far less toxic.
I also got added to that sub. I still don’t… Understand what it was
basically /r/CasualConversation for people with too high post/comment karma for their own good. I’ve made a bunch of good friends over there, but the place has become watered down over time as it became so much easier to get the required amount of points.
i was in there for a minute. my one post was “what is this” and then i was replaced a week later. not my thing i guess
It was a wholesome way to fund the site before they sold out. There was nothing wrong with it being mostly pointless. In fact, it’s better that way. Money gated subs outside of that one meme seems pretty terrible.
I was gifted gold once. The subreddit was mostly Austin Powers Goldmember memes at the time.
I bought Gold when that was the only perk to it, back when they were supposedly trying to independently fund the site.
I deeply regret doing so at this point.
You shouldn’t. Reddit was a different place then.
You supported it when it was good, and abandoned it after it sold out. You can be a little proud of that.
That sounds like the only acceptable use of that sub to me.
I’m sorry? I don’t speak freaky-deeky Dutch
There are two things I can’t stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people’s cultures… and the Dutch.
It was not an impressive sub
It was a “I got gold” circle jerk.
Like century club but somehow worse
The Lounge is where you were given access. That subreddit was ok on its own but really it was a good place to hang out, be friendly and helpful which sometimes resulted in being invited to other private sections of Reddit.
Some of those private subs have a true sense of community who are truly kind, respect each other and fun to interact with. Before the awards went away there were many games with prizes and multi-day parties with lots of engagement and fun. Not anything like the regular Reddit.
Those places still exist but activity has declined since most third party apps and the awards/coin system were taken away. That decision not only damaged the public Reddit subs but also the private ones.
Some players in the ecosystem have not been transparent with their use of Reddit’s content, and in those instances, we block access to protect Reddit content and user privacy.
Aka “Fuck you, pay me”, at least Reddit is transparent that data is for sale and they think they own it.
“Reddit CEO teases new ways to damage and eventually kill Reddit”
Mods are probably asking for paid subs. They would view it as an easy tool to prevent new spam accounts.
Wouldn’t private subs solve that?
Thanks, I hate it
Who tf still uses Reddit? It’s all bots and power tripping mods nowadays. Lemmy is a million times better imo.
I felt that way till the influx of redditors came to get their little dopamine kicks via the rate buttons and bickering on bs topics.
Exactly lol. I literally get banned from subs for no reason, and i once got banned for literally posting a meme in a meme sub, like wtf
They’re already demanding search engines pay to search Reddit; will they have to pay even more to search paid subreddits?
Maybe the search engines could pass on the cost to the user, so you can pay to search the subreddits you pay again to view, which link to websites you pay to view. Add a sprinkle of tracking and targeted ads and some email offers from trusted partners, and you’ve got yourself a business model.
While I do miss the subs with thousands, and the very obscure subs for my specific interest, this shit makes me glad I got out
What makes me sad is how a lot of niche communities moved from websites to Reddit, and now they are going to die.
Do you think they will move to lemmy?
No. Most of those communities are dwindling away. The guitar forums on Reddit are all AI shit repost bots. Luckily there are a few good YouTube channels to still get information, but there is no discussion.
Don’t worry, won’t be long for thousands join Lemmy when Reddit tries the Musk way of running a company into the ground :)
I think he already got pay-to-search and AI-infiltrated subreddits.
He’s just trying new combos.
