MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoReddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the waymashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down16cross-posted to: news@hexbear.net
arrow-up1279arrow-down1external-linkReddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the waymashable.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square50fedilinkcross-posted to: news@hexbear.net
minus-squareSte41thlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·4 months agoSo he wants to make a user pay to see user generated content? Or even better he wants to make a user pay to create content in a subreddit where a user has to pay to see the content they made after they paid to do that themself?
minus-squarecredo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·4 months agoHmm. Sounds like he’s been reading about science research and how publishers make money.
minus-squareWilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 months agoIt sounds ridiculous, but non-free forums have existed for a long time. expertsexchange.com ran pretty successfully for a long time. I don’t think Reddit knows how to make that work, and I think it’ll backfire fantastically for their user base, but it’s not impossible.
minus-squareMoobythegoldensock@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 months agoWas it better than an amateur sex change?
minus-squaredogslayeggs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoIf I ever decide to change my sex, you better fuckin believe I’m not leaving that to some amateur.
So he wants to make a user pay to see user generated content? Or even better he wants to make a user pay to create content in a subreddit where a user has to pay to see the content they made after they paid to do that themself?
Hmm. Sounds like he’s been reading about science research and how publishers make money.
It sounds ridiculous, but non-free forums have existed for a long time. expertsexchange.com ran pretty successfully for a long time.
I don’t think Reddit knows how to make that work, and I think it’ll backfire fantastically for their user base, but it’s not impossible.
Was it better than an amateur sex change?
If I ever decide to change my sex, you better fuckin believe I’m not leaving that to some amateur.