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    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I have to imagine that a free Lemmy version of most communities would be more appealing to most people the paywalled subreddit. But I also have a feeling the paywalled subreddits are going to be crypto or meme stock related, where there’s a benefit to them being paywalled.

      EDIT: As other have said, there’s an incentive for the porno subs to be paywalled too.

  • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    13 hours ago

    This’ll fail miserably unless the paid subreddits are like… onlyfans or something.

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      That and Crypto/wallstreetbets is what I assume. But like most subscription services, the paid tier will start out as “bonus” content but eventually more features get locked behind the paywall.

      If they’re foolish enough to paywall old.reddit it would force a lot of the olds out.

  • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
    5·
    11 hours ago

    This is just the next logical step towards locking the NSFW communities behind a paywall. But, I don’t think it’s for the revenue, mostly. It’s an essential step in tidying up their image and dealing with the regulations around internet censorship and linking real identities to users. They’ll make way more money off of marketing to and marketing data of a fully identified userbase. They’ve already profiled them, linking those profiles to real people will just multiply the value of those profiles. Reddit is Facebooking themselves, selling out their users to turn community into a product. I guess since nobody google searches anymore, and Google did the same thing, we could also call it Googling themselves.

    • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Nobody Google searches anymore? I agree it’s terrible these days, but I’m not aware of what’s better.

      • MinFapper@startrek.websiteEnglish
        31·
        5 hours ago

        Kagi is the one I use. It’s paid, so they don’t skew the search results or shove ads in your face.

        There’s also searxing but I didn’t want to go through the effort of self hosting.