Reddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the way
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  • Awoo [she/her]English
    52•4 months ago

    “I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has,” Huffman said per Engadget. “But now we will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas, things of that nature.”

    1. This will be used by sex workers first.

    2. Gonna do the funniest shit with gamingcirclejerk that the community will absolutely freak out about and take seriously instead of laugh at.

    3. Next blackout protest = paywall all of reddit.

      • naom3 [she/her]English
        21•4 months ago

        r/lounge

        Edit:

        Welcome to The Lounge, an exclusive Reddit gathering of esteemed gentlesnoos from all walks of life. Memento Humani.

        Like a fucking parody of itself

      • Flyberius [comrade/them]English
        11•4 months ago

        I got into century club and it was really fucking awful. There was one user in particular who was a real beard as personality late middle aged dude. He would post about his mundane suburban life constantly, as if anyone was interested, and would refer to his wife as Mrs WhateverTheFuckHisUsernameWas. It was so incredibly condescending and cringe. But because this was Reddit his boring ass self commentary was fawned upon by other century club users, wanting a bit of parasocial interaction. If you were particularly lucky and lived nearby he might swing by and then post pictures of himself drinking and smoking cigars with you.

        To top it off he was a veteran. A real arsehole of a veteran. I think I made some comment about Afghanistan and he responded to me with a story about how he got drunk and ran over a bunch of camels with an LAV, thinking he sounded really cool and unconcerned. True or not, it was just the worst, most childish thing anyone had ever said to me. Just oozing with this need to be seen as some sort of cool dude who couldn’t care less about silly little things like human rights or illegal wars.

        I left that sub pretty much because of this one dude. Oh, and some other user called MrPants who also referred to his “wifey” as Mrs Pants. 🤮

        Ugh, I’m getting angry just thinking about them again

    • @goferking0English
      9•4 months ago

      Why would we need to bully. Sounds like a wet dream for them

    • @Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      28•4 months ago

      Tons of people ostensibly “on the left” started doing it too in more recent months, I’ve noticed.

      I know it’s not as simple as “heuhheuh stop using Twitter dipshits!” but, well, it sort of is that easy individually and what’s even easier is not paying for the checkmark because Elon unleashed 4chan on you and you’re tired of seeing literal Mein Kampf quotations get 1000 likes because it’s shown people while your post is pushed to the bottom. Seems to be what a lot of people did. Instead of going “oh, so this is unusable now. Ok, moving on.” they just paid the money. Just ensuring Elon will continue the strategy on one hand and on the other digging in heels because downloading another app or bookmarking another site and just actively avoiding twitter was “too hard.”

      It’s kinda funny too, additionally, that Elon whines about some invisible collusion against him and his “new Twitter” which I refuse to call by its moronic new name. If Microsoft (MSNBC), Murdoch (Fox), CNN (whoever the right wing fuck is there), and all the others had actually seriously wanted to stomp Elon’s little Nazi dream under the ground it would take zero effort. Google and Apple take the app down (hate speech problems is a super easy and “defendable” reason although they need no reasons because, you know, capitalism). Microsoft and all the other large tech companies, media companies, etc. overwhelmingly ran by conservative liberals who are incredibly racist, right wing, etc. but have zero interest in all the groyper shit spoiling things for them, just communicate between their top executives and PR people to say “hey. Ol’ Zucky has this app over here. Microsoft has some stuff. Let’s all just support each other and leave fuckwad Musk boy out to dry. No more Twitter for news, k guys? Alright.” If all the pundits and reporters at CNN, NYT, Fox, etc. get the silent memo “do not post in an official capacity on Twitter unless told otherwise” like, that’s it. It’s gone in a couple weeks at best.

      Apple saying they don’t want a white genocide conspiracy theory directly under their ad for iPhone is not some vast conspiracy. It’s just what every sensible capitalist corporation is gonna do.

      So, now that libs are just caving to that addiction to likes and content creators feel they must use it, well, Bluesky was probably the best chance at killing it and Dorsey sat and didn’t do a full public launch for way way too long. Yes I know mastodon and stuff exists, but being super realistic, people are generally dumb and they don’t think or care about decentralization or centralization or why Twitter sucked to begin with. So, as much as I want that stuff to work, well, I’m not on Twitter or mastodon nor will I be. I’m not on reddit either, speaking of another “we truly deserve the worst fate” situation. People were rightly pissed and then just went right back to taking the shaft happily. Even using and paying for that objectively dog doodoo official app. And now that anger over that has basically all gone away I’ve seen their teams working on killing the last few alternatives people had to maintain the old site (like sideloading the Apollo app on iOS which still worked, still does actually, but they’ll chip away and kill it eventually. They could do it just by changing the API anyway. Then on mobile you’re stuck with their constantly changing popup ads, their shit app with ads, or nothing (paying isn’t a real option fuck that it was meant to be a free site. It’s just an aggregation site). Seriously those cockflaps change the code seemingly multiple times a week to evade the updated adblock lists. It’s actually pathologically insane that the Steve Nazi weirdo guy seems to have a team of "your job is just “make the popup work at all times.”)

      So anyway, hopefully Steve and Elon, you know, well, you know. Funny things.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]English
        10•4 months ago

        Apple saying they don’t want a white genocide conspiracy theory directly under their ad for iPhone is not some vast conspiracy. It’s just what every sensible capitalist corporation is gonna do.

        so-far

    • Aradina [She/They]English
      24•4 months ago

      Stormfront is a neo-nazi website.

      Reddit is a website full of neo-nazis, and is thus often called Stormfront.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]English
      13•4 months ago

      It’s a nazi website that used to be on reddit until negative press forced them to ban it. Hence the reddit-logo logo, that’s clipped from an old screenshot. We use it whenever redditor types say racist things, as a “well, what do you expect from that crowd.”