Reddit as a platform and subculture is toxic for democratic discourse
Since Reddit is only a platform and the users provide the content (well mostly bots and reposts now), does that mean Reddit will pay users for their content? Personally, I wouldn’t pay one cent to read posts.
I compare Reddit to a snake eating it’s tail.
Ouroboros? Such a fun word.
That describes all capitalist businesses. They always eventually cannibalize their own customers and services once growth slows.
It’s for the porn. And think about the shareholders.
I wish more people thought about the Pornholders.
First, they came for the gooners …
probably thats why reddit has banned OF accs en masse recently, they couldnt get money from thier OF promotions. im betting with the paid system, they will allow some form of approved botting for those channels in the form advertisements.
OF creators have to go through a rigorous process to verify themselves. I can’t imagine reddit doing anything close to that, but I might be wrong. If not, it will be a playground for scammers and stolen content.
I run a paid lemmy community, I mean I’m the one paying for it (it’s not expensive to do)
The enshitification continues…
OnlyReddit
This is actually really good to hear because I have a bridge I’ve been trying to sell so having a whole community that I know is full of the most gullible people on the internet will really speed up the process
Bwahahaha, I can’t really believe people would pay for that crap.
Andrew Tate’s ”Hustler’s University” has 200k subscribers. Sadly this world has so many stupid people throwing their money to stupid things.
Paid subreddits lmfao
what if it’s got my tiddies in there
No offense, but I don’t think many people are looking to see a pair of Nutsack’s tiddies.
There’s an audience for everything, niche stuff like nutsack tiddies probably pays very well.
Speak for yourself.
Stick your tits on Lemmy. There are porn instances, too. 🫣
not paid ones. God damn it
patreon accts, how some youtubes peddled thier patreons, and found out theres very little difference between the 2. might be different for a STEM channel.
Haven’t paid subreddits been a thing for a decade? /r/lounge being the main one, but anyone could make a subreddit and require gold to view iirc.
There are quite a few subreddits that require vast amounts of karma points (like 12,000) to reply, and there are heaps that require high karma points to post, meaning you have to effectively buy them.
That only impacts non-lurkers which is a little different.
What even was the point of lounge? I’ve been gifted gold and platinum several times and never really cared about posting there.
Also unrelated but this reminds me of one time somebody faked dying of cancer to get gold. Like “I only have a month to live and I’ve never got gold” lmao
I’ve been gifted gold twice and I never understood the appeal of it either, everything in there was self-referential both times I checked.
I used to consider it a way to highlight a comment that I thought others should see. I have no idea if it holds the same power now, since gold, platinum, and a million other little “award badges” are now available. Yet once upon a time, seeing a gold icon next to a comment seemed to draw people’s attention. If a comment got gilded early, you’d see a huge difference in upvotes and replies for that particular comment.
Reddit goes the way of Digg.com
Bout time really. I felt like a frog in the slowly boiling water over there. They had plenty of opportunities over the years to improve things, and now this is where it’s at…
It is why I am here, the straw that broke the camels back. So at my wits end with it. From killing third party apps, forced ads jammed inbetween every post/comment, declining communities, autobans on nonsense, a UI that forces misclicks into awards instead of upvoting, and this paywall is only a signal of worse to come as they monetize content that is not even their own!
Welcome Here, Jim! I hope that website burns to the ground.
Nice name, Kerrigan did nothing wrong
I am here because i got perma banned in such a short time for being pro ukraine. Nothing happened for 7 years same behaviour and phrasing of comments. Then suddenly openly posting pro ukraine and BOOM 3 Days then 7 days then perma.
And fuck reddit
It’s crazy that you can get banned for simply writing some pro-Ukraine comments, but it takes Reddit weeks, months, or years to suspend/ban people who send threats and literal predators. Today I was made aware of a subreddit called “r/Grownkids”. The name is a reference to, I assume, teenagers under the age of 18, and the posts are filled with people sharing telegrams and other ways to communicate and “feed” each other – presumably sending/sharing CP, given the name of the subreddit and the suspiciously vague nature of all of the posts wanting to take communications off-platform to fishy platforms like Telegram instead. This subreddit has over 3,000 subscribers. I reported a few of the posts. Reddit’s bot immediately got back to me to tell me they were already reported, but they had determined that no rules were broken.
As of posting, this subreddit is still up and likely won’t be gone for weeks now.
Fortunately, they were able to permanently ban you very quickly for supporting Ukraine, clearly the real problem on Reddit.
Wow!
I also was a moderator on r/NAFO. And few days after i became moderator i got my first ban on a comment about the german train system where i wrote “sprich deutsch du hurensohn” its an inside joke of germans online in german subreddits. Years long never got banned for that.
My second ban was for saying “the entire train organisation system needs to be torn down and rebuild a new” ban reason “encouraging violence”.
Final ban was for a post where it was about how europe needs to support ukraine with what ever they can, send all their weapons and “destroy the russian invading forces, maroding, murdering threw the peaceful beautiful land of ukraine” ban reason was “encouraging violence and supporting terrorism”
Many others got banned shortly after they became active speaking out against russia. I bet there is a vatnik as reddit admin and the russian bot-niks monitor every member actively speaking out against russia and its allies, find anything that could get them banned, mass report and then get them banned
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Wow… Wow.
Too big to fail? We’re going to see about that.
