Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/reddit-plans-to-lock-some-content-behind-a-paywall-this-year-ceo-says/

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RedSnt@feddit.dk · 26 pts · 1y

To quote Cory Doctorow on enshittification:

Here is how platforms die:
first, they are good to their users;
then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers;
finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
Then, they die.

hinterlufer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Paywalled subs existed for ages already. If you had Premium or whatever it was called you could access them. It was mostly uninteresting stuff going on there.

zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I remember getting premium once (got a few days for free for some reason) and I think the only "premium" sub was r/lounge or whatever and it was just people saying they got premium.

Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

My wife bought it for me as a present once misunderstanding what it was. I looked at those subs once and then never again

I still appreciate the effort, but by far the most useless gift she's ever given

overload@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y

It's the only thing the people in that sub necessarily have in common, and is the theme of the sub. Very very pointless.

I think it's more likely that they paywall some of the NSFW subs than try to make more subs like r/lounge.