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- technology@beehaw.org
- technology@lemmy.world
Reddit is planning to introduce a paywall this year, CEO Steve Huffman said during a videotaped Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Thursday.
Huffman previously showed interest in potentially introducing a new type of subreddit with “exclusive content or private areas” that Reddit users would pay to access.
When asked this week about plans for some Redditors to create “content that only paid members can see,” Huffman said:
It’s a work in progress right now, so that one’s coming… We’re working on it as we speak.
When asked about “new, key features that you plan to roll out for Reddit in 2025,” Huffman responded, in part: “Paid subreddits, yes.”
Reddit’s paywall would ostensibly only apply to certain new subreddit types, not any subreddits currently available.
Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform. The push for ads follows changes to Reddit’s API policy that, in part, led to the closing of most third-party apps used for accessing Reddit. Reddit makes most of its revenue from ads and can only show ads on its native apps and website.
Reddit started testing ads in comments last year, with COO Jen Wong saying during an AMA that such ads are in “about 3 percent of inventory.” The executive hinted at that percentage growing. Wong also shared hopes that contextual advertising, or ads being shown based on the content surrounding them, will be a “bigger part of” Reddit’s business by 2026.
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Man this reddit site sounds awful
i really wish there was an open source alternative to it :(
looks around
…wait.
If small dick energy had a face it would be Steve Huffman’s.
Wait, I thought he was the guy who had the woflds most punchable face…
They’re not mutually exclusive.
His dick isn’t small, I sucked him off once
I almost wish Elon would buy it, so he can “manage” it like he did Twitter
I’m glad I jumped ship back during the ban on 3rd party apps. That was it for me.
I don’t even use any apps and was just planning on boycotting it for a few days in solidarity. Then Greedy Little Pigboy made his statement about how everyone will come crawling back and that was that.
Oh i didn’t even hear about that. Fuck spez.
The memo is in this article, if you’re curious.
thank!
This is the actual reason for me too. I’m making a point to never visit that website again.
There’s exceptions like when searching for troubleshooting help and a relevant result happens to be on Reddit, but otherwise I avoid it as much as possible.
I figure as long as you visit with adblock enabled and don’t post anything, you’re not contributing to them in any meaningful way.
Agreed, and to be fair I still stop in at niche subreddits I used to follow to see what’s new, but never logged in.
Tbh, I didn’t care about the 3rd party apps.
I just didn’t like the silencing of opposition.
If they are willing to do mass censorship for benign things like a 3rd party apps protest, what’s to say they wont booklick governments/corportions and censor info of horrible things that a government/corporation is doing.
It’s the censorship that I was more afraid of. Besides, I always wanted a decentalized platform, but none of it had any users until June 12, 2023.
That’s the truth. It was tone deafness, a lack of responsiveness, and a clear lack of principles that made me leave during that.
Yep. When RIF was killed, I closed that door immediately (was not easy). It was to be expected though, I think. Once a site reaches critical mass, money interests enter the picture and greed can always screw up a good thing. It’s a shame.
Same. I had even paid for the paid tier of my 3rd party app because it was such a good value to me that I wanted the devs to have some of my money. Thanks to that app, I was on the site more and pretty much never via computer anymore.
I think it was for the best though. Quality over quantity here. I find it to be far less toxic on Lemmy overall. It’s like how people tend to be nicer in a small town because you know you’re gonna run into these people over and over again, but the big city you came from had more variety in stuff to check out. Definitely a trade-off, but I think it’s worth it to have this much more pleasant space that isn’t so packed with content as to be addictive. Good vibes.
I’ve gone back to reddit a few times from searches, and after spending time away it is really apparent how negative most of the comments over there are.
For example, anytime someone asks for help, someone always has to show up and get angry that they didn’t search instead of asking. Then a third person shows up and says that a search brought them to this thread… and no one ever answers the question. Thanks reddit!
There are some instances where Reddit is still a great source of information just due to the sheer size of the community. But there’s a lot more shit to wade through after the exodus a couple years back. I haven’t signed back in for years.
Its improving over time, I think it’ll find a decent grove as more communities pop up. I find the comment sections really engaging too I’ve had some solid conversations over here.
Me too.
Man people really like taking a beating.
Wild that that was almost 2 years ago now…
Same, my mouth dropped reading the article.
Obligatory fuck spez
Reddit has gotten so bad that it’s funny. I love reading about whatever awkward, bumbling cash grab they’re trying next.
What’s a good word for constant, ongoing enshittification? Diarrheafication?
Funny and sad at the same time, to be honest… That douche busted up a lot of awesome communities with wonderful people, and he’s on the right track to ruin things completely…
In the name of profits.
Don’t be mistaken, he and his board will make tons of money from this. Everyone is rooting for the demise of the site, but the bad guys will win. So what everyone liked will be gone and dead, and those parasites will be even richer.
Hopefully this will drive even more users to switch over. I find myself finding Reddit less useful as time passes by
Theyll prob ban hella ppl for commenting/posting about these changes forcing them to come here lol
Whenever i search for a problem now, most of the posts that contain actual answers are more than a year old, and increasingly out dated.
Fortunately, Lemmy is tech savvy and small enough that I can ask questions without worrying about the down vote brigade.
Yea and sometimes these older posts are filled with answers that just say “this user deleted all their data using “whatever service””.
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Same I hardly ever find useful answers on reddit anymore. Most useful links have been from the native forums of the very product I’m trying to find answers for.
Hi, I think I’m doing this right. Just joined Lemmy lol because of this. Can people see my comment?
yep, even from my solo instance
yes we can :) welcome!
Not only do I see your comment, it’s not yet buried even 5 days after you’ve made it.
Same here.
Happy cake 🎂 day!
One of us!
Hi mate
Awwww yeaaah. Welcome friend, stay a while
hunter2
One of us!
Nope, cannot see this.
😉
Yes! Welcome to the fediverse
si
One of us!
Welcome!
Can I reply to this next week when I stop laughing
Yes.
i hope there is a mass migration here
The more they do shit like this the more they will
I mean, honestly Reddit is a dead site walking. At this point is not if it will “die” but how fast and I guess more importantly where will its users go. Hopefully here but who knows
By far one of the easiest decisions was jumping on over here - and I barely understand it half the time.
Second best was ditching Facebook like it was cancer.
Wave incoming
I’m surprised they aren’t talking about subscriber subreddits. With the amount of porn/OnlyFans posts, I would have thought they could position Reddit as a friendly and familiar OF alternative.
Probably because OF gets a lot of their business through promoting on Reddit.
So why not cut out OF and keep the users?
Risk vs reward. I could see reddit swinging either way depending on which they think smells like more money.
That probably is the idea, to have a competitor to Patreon and OnlyFans. They should have probably mentioned that as an example before some people start thinking /r/worldnews becomes paywalled.
Seems like a pretty huge opportunity for Reddit. If the article mentioned it, I missed it.
It does not mention it and I cannot see any official statement, but that seems like a logical reason. Reddit management however is not famous for being logical so we will see.
I wonder what the legality is of that when people are posting content from these porn sites and reddit is charging users to access it. How is this any different than paid piracy streaming sites?
I wouldn’t be surprised if NSFW subreddit are what he is talking about.
They know pornhub still exists right?
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It is the Onlyfans girls farming simps.
Keep in mind Reddit wants to wall off NSFW to be more advertiser friendly, and therefore more profitable.
Sigh unzips pants and fuck u/spez
i too deleted my 15-Year Club reddit account
It does seem like a lot of ads for “3% of inventory”. I can’t ever see a reason to pay for a subreddit.
