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Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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When asked about "new, key features that you plan to roll out for Reddit in 2025," Huffman responded, in part: “Paid subreddits, yes.”

Reddit's paywall would ostensibly only apply to certain new subreddit types, not any subreddits currently available. In August, Huffman said that even with paywalled content, free Reddit would "continue to exist and grow and thrive."

A critical aspect of any potential plan to make Reddit users pay to access subreddit content is determining how related Reddit users will be compensated. Reddit may have a harder time getting volunteer moderators to wrangle discussions on paid-for subreddits—if it uses volunteer mods at all. Balancing paid and free content would also be necessary to avoid polarizing much of Reddit's current user base.

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[–] Brad@beehaw.org 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There is no content on Reddit valuable enough that I would pay for access to it.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Sadly there is... Recently I found an old post where someone was sharing a script to integrate Thunar's bulk rename into Nemo as an action...

There's still valuable info out there and that's kinda depressing to still search the web and always fallback to a reddit post :/.

[–] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah at it's best reddit is an aggregate of content from around the web and a message board.

The only thing I can think of that this makes sense for is to keep the onlyfans people who promote on reddit(or got started on gonewild) to stay on reddit. I feel like reddit is probably not trying to get more in bed with providing porn so Im curious exactly what the application could be otherwise.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Have you ever been to the reddit gold lounge?

I imagine it will be that, one way or another.