Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
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Prediction: This change comes to life, people make an uproar about this. Then they forget this in a few days and continue using reddit.
This same old keeps happening with reddit, Twitter/X, etc.
Hopefully we do receive some refugees to Lemmy!
Reddit likely won’t die from one bad change, it’s going to slowly die to attrition as they keep putting shit like this in.
It's been slowly dying from attrition . It might be gaining users, but meaningful interactions and content production is down from 3 years ago.
Yup, and the trend just continues.
I’m one. Hello all.
Hi!
For Lemmy usage my preferred approach is always sorting by all and blocking communities (and instances) I don't want to see instead of subscribing to the ones I do want to see. This way you get more content and dont miss new sublemmies! :)
Appreciate the advice!
You're welcome. Spread the word of the fediverse, may one day Lemmy be bigger than Reddit, Pixelfed bigger than Instagram, Mastodon bigger than Twitter, ...
Welcome!
I see more and more people moving to Bluesky, which means Xitter is becoming less and less relevant by the day. Except for nazi shitheads, that is.
Well Reddit wouldn't be the juggernaut it is now if Digg hadn't done similarly stupid things and paid the ultimate price. Social media sites do fall, and Lemmy grows a little every time this happens. I honestly don't care. I like Lemmy how it is now.
niche communities that don’t exist on lemmy.
This is the reason. I can get all the Linux discussion I want on Lemmy, but discussions about an Acura RSX? That community does not exist here.
There is zero car talk on Lemmy and it fucking sucks ass.
Well that's just not true....
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We talk about how much better the world would be without cars. That qualifies as car talk, right?
There are definitely high-IQ car guys and they are soul of car forums/reddits. But based on my observation of the diagnostic and critical thinking skills of the other 90%, they are probably never going to figure out how to use Lemmy.
And somehow we need both types (maybe for sample size?) in order to have a thriving niche community about anything.
Yeah... I also miss doom-scrolling unixporn and ergomechkeyboards in here.
Tbf, for me, that's more of a forum territory. I wasn't even using the subreddit for Aprilia motorcycles, but been on Apriliaforum for years
There are some pretty basic communities that are non existent or dead on Lemmy and I hate it
A good example is the Usenet community, in Lemmy there is barely any activity, on reddit people post at least once a week.
Use RSS to read them.
You can't participate through RSS.
Correct. Less engagement for them, still can get your fix of reading specific things. A read only option to lurk is better than missing everything.
I suppose, but anything I'd consider a niche community probably has worthwhile discussions, questions, answers, etc. They aren't read-only.
porn
you mean onlyfans spam?
Who the hell uses Reddit for porn?
A lot of people dont use an app at all, much less third party apps, so the whole thing was lost on them to begin with, if they were even aware of it.
So Lemmy will have more this year
I guess we can expect another burst of Reddit refugees
One can only hope they’ll have the mind/willingness to.
In other news, Lemmy will keep all its content open for free, making everything accessible to everyone.
As a sidenote, do tip your instance operators, especially if you're on a small instance. Upkeep isn't free.
Enshittification? Man, who could have seen that coming?
/s
Get ready for the influx of new users
hi, im one of those new users. Have a beautiful day friend.
I am now on my third attempt let's see if this one sticks
Who you calling friend, pal? \s (I hope some folks know this 🤣)
I was so happy when I found lemmy. A great alternative to reddit with a small and kind community. I hope it doesn't turn into the cancer that is reddit.
I joined reddit in 2013. It was great until it wasn't
I blame the 5 mods who control the top 200 subs. I still think posting was better years ago. Could actually post comments.
I moved here and took a break from Reddit for a year after the whole API thing.
Recently been dipping my toe back in the water, lurking only.
It is noticeable that a lot of posts are obviously bot accounts trying to spur debate on contentious topics. And in general, it’s a sad echo of the community it used to be.
On the other hand, there are some communities there that are still pretty active and interesting just based on the sheer volume of people that still use Reddit. So it still has a place in my life… Kinda.
Only expect to get worse over time, it’s like a slow decline of a friendship
I wonder if that's what all the banned subs thing was about. Maybe "some content" = NSFW subs
i’m guessing older posts, maybe 6+ months. so basically any question you google with an answer on reddit.
So if the accepted solution is behind a paywall, the question gets asked (and answered) over and over again. It's an insidious way to generate infinite content.
This is great news... for lemmy!
Amazing! Keep stepping on rakes, Reddit.
That's one sure way to kill the platform
In Patreon, the users are selling their content, in this case Reddit is paywalling user content without paying the users.
The site has become utterly useless. I got banned for god knows what, they don’t actually tell you. But just disagreeing with someone else and they report you and you’re auto banned without question.
I tried opening new accounts and every single one would be banned for evasion. I guess they track ip? In any case the users have become x10 more toxic and the site itself is trash
I had multiple accounts suddenly they all got system error, which in Reddit means you are banned. They couldn't be bothered to implement a notification system to inform the users they were banned.
I still have no idea why I was banned, nobody ever replied to me
From my experience they almsot never reply, it is better to make a new account using vpn rather than trying to get unbanned.
I don't really get it why would people want to post to a sub that hardly anyone can see and likely you won't get any good amount of karma.
likely I'm missing something but yeah I wouldn't pay to see a sub I'd just look for a free one which likely already exists.
another dick move from spez! I'm sure the outcome would be more lemmybuds joining
Reddit is just a bunch of bots, jerking each other purple. They don't have any content worth locking.
Yeeeaaaah
Well I will be no longer on Reddit then. I’m so sick of this fleecing us at every turn
Really? Everything else was fine but this is a bridge too far?
Nope it’s been shit for a while it’s just the straw.
lol
I've been thinking about this And the only thing I can think of spez wants to bring back his old sub reddit but it needs heavy paid modding.