- cross-posted to:
- linustechtips@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- linustechtips@lemmit.online
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Sometimes we forget that the roof over our heads and the walls that hold it up are temporary. The store at the mall is temporary. The mall is temporary. The ground that the mall is on is temporary. Nothing last forever. Except for the stupidity of Steve Huffman, which seems boundless.
That’s not fair!
You left out his greed
I’m hoping this will be a Patreon/OnlyFans situation where you can make a subreddit for your followers, art or whatever and not a thing where the big subs become $0.99/Month.
It will be the second thing, and it will be more than $.99
No way I’m subscribing to spez’ OnlyFans! No way in hell!
It’s just him doing the daily Goatse and you’re paying for it.
Only spez
The handful of mods that control all the giant subreddits are going to rake it in for the remaining week or two reddit survives after this. This is going to be worse than streaming TV, imagine a subscription per series instead of per service.
Awesome. Hopefully it encourages more attrition.
We’re gonna get more Reddit refugees when it happens.
That’s probably a good thing. More people are welcome, and it might take the edge off of Lemmy a little.
God I hope so.
Oh don’t get me wrong. I’m a Reddit refugee myself.
I moved over today, not becuase of this issue directly but because I have been looking for a reddit alternative for a while and saw someone mention lemmy in the thread about the topic.
It’s quieter but much more civilized here… for now.
Welcome!
- the average person does not care, and won’t pay for reddit. They do not use it in a way that makes sense paying for it like a subscription.
Redditors will care. Chronically online people will notice. Will it make money? Only from goobers willing to fall for it. It’s like a two part joke - unpaid mods couldn’t stand against the initial API changes because it meant losing the figment of imagination that they call power. Unpaid volunteers will now eat the other half of the joke - they’re going to PAY to moderate these subs. (As the sub will need a subscription presumably). Reddit investors are getting these people to be the joke that just keeps giving. Imagine paying to do work lmao
Isn’t this basically what r/lounge is?
I used to go there, it wasn’t that cool
“Make Shit Worse Again”
What is a reddit?
It’s like a shitty corporate-run Lemmy instance with no federated peers
It’s that horrible website that Google tries to link to, like Pinterest
Fuck /u/Spez
Hey guys it’s ok, Steve Huffman said Reddit is altruistic so he’s probably just helping society out of the goodness of his heart.
Surely this would kill the company?
Do you know how many people wouldn’t care, at all?
Most people just pick up their phone and pay for whatever. They don’t know what the internet has been like and they don’t think ahead about what it’ll be if they just pay a bit for their favorite subreddit.
Let’s watch that stock price.
This already exists. The premium subreddit is paywalled.
Do you mean r/lounge for Reddit gold users? That place was a wholesome dystopian nightmare. Every post was a wall of text about someone’s day and each comment felt like the user had a gun to their head.
Yeah I think.
I got platinum once and was in a sub like this for a couple months
Remember to donate, for your local instances operations, as well as development of lemmy.
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So free speech but with a cover charge?
