MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoReddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the waymashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10
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minus-squareSte41th@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 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-squareWilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 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.
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?
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.