• RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
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    30 days ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1330 days ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1930 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        530 days ago

        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

      • @[email protected]
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        329 days ago

        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.

  • Brad
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    1030 days ago

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

    • CorganaOP
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      129 days ago

      If they were smart they would find a way to paywall all the years-old posts where someone is like “hey how do I fix this specific part on my 1992 sewing machine” and it has a single reply with the answer.