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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

To be honest, this is actually a genius move when it comes to NSFW content.

Almost every pornographic sub has already been astroturfed by e-girls plugging their OnlyFans and Fansly links. Giving them the ability to paywall their content directly on Reddit effectively cuts out the middle-man and allows Reddit to undercut the likes of OF and Fansly with lower transaction fees.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 407 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Welcome to Lemmy former redditors

[–] DNS@discuss.online 119 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The revolution will be televised; behind a paywall.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The revolution will have a subscription.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks. I just switched - apparently just in time!

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[–] Tramort@programming.dev 29 points 1 week ago

The only subreddit you need is

r/redditseppuku

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 228 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some subreddits, like r/Watchexchange, where Redditors “buy, sell or trade watches,” according to the subreddit’s description, are centered on transactions. Huffman said the fact that users are already “transacting on Reddit kind of opens the door” for such monetization.

"Hey! How dare you exchange things with each other without giving us a cut!"

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 98 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whole lot of “Reddit, what are you going to do about the scammers now that we’re paying you?” posts are coming. The answer is nothing. They’ll do nothing.

Actually, they’ll write their lack of culpability more explicitly into the ToS, and then do nothing.

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[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I’m wondering how they would charge people. Who would pay for a subreddit they’ve never been to? Could a non-paying user view the subreddit but be unable to post/comment?

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could a non-paying user view the subreddit but be unable to post/comment?

Doubtful. If I remember the statistic correctly, 95% of social media users are lurkers. Greedy Little Pigboy wouldn't pass up the opportunity to milk the remaining 19/20 users.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 131 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 123 points 1 week ago (18 children)

Yes let's put a site that consists pretty much entirely of user-created content behind a paywall, what could possibly go wrong?

[–] ef9357@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Well, Spez is a special kind of stupid.

[–] vegantomato@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think people who are content with Reddit being the way it is deserve someone like Spez.

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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 94 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] singletona@lemmy.world 92 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guys, Gals, my non-binary pals.

I hope you understand the assignment.

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[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 89 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It'll be the porn they charge for.

They know only wankers will give them money.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What’s funny about that is Reddit is mostly just an advertising front for onlyfans at this point

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Well, that’s the death of the free* forum. Went from BBS to newsgroups to phpBB to Reddit, each soft-killing its predecessor. But like WalMart killing Main Street, Reddit is going to kill the free forum.

Thank goodness for Lemmy and other free* social network software.

*free with the asterisk because we know it’s not free, we are enjoying the service that others volunteer to pay for.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Next wave of reddit exodus coming soon...

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 51 points 1 week ago

Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform.

Oh how exciting!

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 50 points 1 week ago

It's not even worth using for free

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope all the lemmy instances are ready for a surge of users. Let's encourage redditors to join Lemmy and learn the kinks and quirks by trial and error. Let's be kind to the newcomers.

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[–] houseofleaves@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (10 children)

As soon as I read that I thought I'd make an account here.

[–] Acid_Burn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago

Welcome! It's weird here, but it's great.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
[–] SpaceRanger13@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You made a great comment showing some easy ways to join Lemmy, and that's what I appreciates about you!

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[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (6 children)

service that owes its popularity largely to its low barrier to entry signals higher barriers to entry

cool! please do.

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[–] Splitwood@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Goodbye Reddit, Hello Lemmy.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Well I think we're gonna see another influx

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[–] dekerta@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was going to say something snarky about how they're going to fail because who would pay for social media, then I remembered blue checkmarks.

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[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Watch them fuck up the implementation and suffer the worst PR disaster in recent history when they slap a paywall on r/suicidewatch.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 28 points 1 week ago
[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

fun fact: you dont have to use websites

[–] StormMission907@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Recent recruit from Reddit. Finally made the jump. Love the apps like Boost, Thunder and Voyager.

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