Reddit CEO Teases Paywalled Subreddits

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NataliaTheDrowned2 , edited

Let's build those same subreddits but free and on the Fediverse. Let's see if they move here.

ripcord

I mean, it's probably for onlyfans-ish porn. So probably they won't want to move here.

douglasg14b , edited

They could, but as it currently stands media hosting on the fediverse.... Sucks.

It's obscenely expensive for everyone involved, and scales poorly. It's just not ready to operate at scale at this point.

I'm sure it will get better, but large storage costs are better off being handled by a distributed file-system where a minimal level of duplication is baked in, but the storage load is reasonably spread out instead of fully duplicated on each peer.

There are technologies for this, but they all have their own issues. And tomorrow there will be n+1 distributed filesystems, fragmenting it further.

NataliaTheDrowned2 , edited

It can be other than that kind of content, e.g (according to the other comment) those from !assholedesign@lemmy.world

Dandroid

That's a satire article

threelonmusketeers

Is there a list of the most active subreddits which don't yet have a threadiverse counterpart?

@rglullis@communick.news @Blaze@sopuli.xyz

Might be an interesting project for Fediverser or !fedigrow@lemm.ee. Start with the most popular subreddit, create a Lemmy community on an appropriate instance, find mods and contributers (????, profit). Repeat with the next most popular subreddit.

rglullis , edited
Blaze (he/him)

I added 6 mapping for popular subs.

Blaze (he/him)

Thanks for the list!

threelonmusketeers

Thanks! I finally took the plunge to investigate Fediverser, and it seems like a really cool project.

I went through a bunch of my Reddit subscriptions and recommended a bunch of analogous communities.

One possible bug I found was in the filters. If I set "subscribed" to "yes" and clicked "apply filters" I got no results. Is this expected behaviour?

rglullis

Thank you! It was nice to wake up this morning and see like 3 different people adding a bunch of changes to the database.

You are right about the bug. It seems that depending in some cases the list of subscriptions is not pulled.

Elevator7009 , edited

I also found that when I am trying to add a recommended Fediverse alternative to a subreddit, the heading says "Recommended Subreddit" and not "Recommended Community".

Curious if I have to add a community to the database in the first place before I can make it a Recommended Community, or if it'll be added if I paste the link into Recommended Community first without any other action (I noticed both adding a community to the database and pasting the link in Recommended Community make me grab the full URL so I was curious).

You may also want to make the Subreddit field case-insensitive in case of duplicate additions. I unknowingly added a dupe subreddit because the version already there was the subreddit name in full lowercase instead of with the first letter capitalized like I saw it in the Reddit URL and the sub sidebar.

hankskyjames777

Im with you, know the names and make it in here

BradleyUffner

They are going to pay those mods, right? Right?

cordlesslamp

LOL next it'll be you need a Premium Member Subscription to be a mod.

Alphane Moon

Other than OF-style content, what exactly are they planning to paywall?

jet

OF content would be a massive money maker. That might be enough to justify the whole project

foggy

If they paywall their porn, the site tumblrs off a cliff.

threelonmusketeers

the site tumblrs off a cliff

Beautiful turn of phrase.

Tangent5280

Not just paywall their porn, also force linking:

1) Payment method and thus Identity to reddit account

2) Identity to whatever degenerate shit you like to get off to.

foggy

That's why I downloaded the top 250 non-text posts from 250 different pornographic subreddit when they announced the API bullshit over a year ago. I got an old man style static spank bank like playboy magazines in the 70s on my home server for safe keeping.

I should probably scrape the top 250 from this past year from my favorite 20 or so subs manually or find some automated way that still works 🤔

Frozyre

Don't underestimate Reddit coomers. They gots to coom and they'll pay to coom.

Five [OP] , edited
NataliaTheDrowned2 , edited

In case they want to visit that subreddit: !assholedesign@lemmy.world

Alphane Moon , edited

Could please share the article from the screenshot? The one where he says he wants to paywall r/asshole design?

So basically anything goes in terms of content...

EDIT: The reference to assholedesign is a joke, the first part is legite (that they are generally considering paywalled subs).

Five [OP]

I'm sharing the screenshot posted to Reddit, I haven't seen the article. You can follow the link to the Reddit thread.

Alphane Moon

Cheers!

Dandroid

That's a satire article

INHALE_VEGETABLES

Lmao gold lounge.

TigerClawTV

This is what got me to return to Lemmy

threelonmusketeers

Welcome back! How are you finding it this time?

Blaze (he/him)

Welcome back

Lost_My_Mind

I just feel like The Joker in The Dark Knight reading this. The scene where Batman is driving his motorcycle straight at The Joker, and The Joker isn't flinching. They're playing chicken.

Reading this headline I'm like "do it....do it.......c'mon do it, you coward......C'MON!!!! DO IT!!!!"

Because I know that if he DOES try that, it'll be just as big of an exodus as Twitter had when bargin bin Lex Luther bought it.

Do it. C'mon, do it you coward!!!

Media Sensationalism

I went back to check things out for the first time in a while and realized just how awful it is in comparison to Lemmy. It's an incomprehensible clusterfuck of bots and influence campaigns. As long as engagement and new account numbers look good on paper to appease shareholders, I guess.

joel_feila

Not every sub. The ones I use are mostly unchanged

Blaze (he/him)

!reddit@lemmy.world has a thread about this for people interested

DudeImMacGyver

Gross and also why is this here?

douglasg14b , edited

why is this here

Because it's relevant?

Don't let a bad thing go to waste, it's a great opportunity to shore up, improve, and accept migrating users with friendliness and openness.

A great time to share the ideology behind decentralized social media.

ngwoo

Yup, every Reddit screw up is an opportunity to get more users here.

Kayn

So every negative news about Twitter, Instagram and literally every non-fedi social media platform is "relevant" too?

The post itself doesn't even make an effort to connect this to potential benefits for fedi.

Blaze (he/him)

Yes, I'm surprised with the score of the post as usually those tend to be downvoted. !reddit@lemmy.world is there for a reason

threelonmusketeers

Every time Reddit does something stupid, there is an opportunity to bring more users to the fediverse.

nutsack

wow someone tell lemmy

ripcord

Also after a week of other posts about this (mostly to other sub's, but still).

[deleted]

Reminder that people did fuck-all to actually try and stop spez from turning Reddit into this dumpster fire

Blaze (he/him)

We are here now, so there's at least that

ඞmir

Everyone on this website did something to stop it. Leaving.

[deleted]

Reddit still has over 70 million daily active users. The actions taken were entirely ineffective.

wiki_me

I actually think this might be good, imagine communities that will benefit from the involvement of professionals like therapists or nutritionists (like for stopping to smoke or drink alcohol or losing weight). If it has a market a lemmy alternative for that i think is definitely on the table.

Frozyre

I disagree. The Reddit community at large is a bunch of spiteful shitposters who'll spin anything and everything you put infront of them. They've done this for years.

It is the worst place for anyone with mental instability issues to frequent or seek advice in. Mainly because as we all know, Spez doesn't give a shit about anyone's privacy so anyone can just comb through your profile and stockpile ammo from you. Things you wouldn't tell anyone else - now it's in their hands. Information you thought was "safe" - now they know.

There are other places out there that are more knowledgable and credible than Reddit pretends to be. Plus, they care about privacy. Like there's a suicide forum out there that will not let anyone outside, who hasn't registered anyways, to view the contents of the forum. Does Reddit do that? No, not even if you're a subscriber!

I don't see a lot of dietitians, therapists, nutritionists, psychologists .etc spending all of their hard work to get the credentials to be where they want to be, just so they can offer sound and legitimate advice on a platform that doesn't give a single shit.

wiki_me

I disagree. The Reddit community at large is a bunch of spiteful shitposters who’ll spin anything and everything you put infront of them. They’ve done this for years.

In my experience lemmy users are worst on average , but maybe it depends on what kind of sections of lemmy and reddit you use.

There are other places out there that are more knowledgable and credible than Reddit pretends to be.

the benefits of communities of practice for learning are documented in research, in terms of communities of practice for self improvement for example i found nothing better then r/selfimprovement (and i spent a fairly large amount of time trying to find one). It's very helpful when people just share what helped them.

Tangent5280

Yeah, on the recycling table maybe. Garbage idea, boooooo