Reddit is just borderline unusable because of the API thing.. The app is unusable, and Red Reader is just too bland to use.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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Not to mention bloated and loads like crap on older mobile devices.
fun fact: you dont have to use websites
mfw someone makes r/paywalledwhatever then someone else mirrors it with r/unpaywalledwhatever
Watch them fuck up the implementation and suffer the worst PR disaster in recent history when they slap a paywall on r/suicidewatch.
It'll be the porn they charge for.
They know only wankers will give them money.
Reddit has cracked down on many porn subreddits in the last few years. Most porn on reddit is now just ads for onlyfans.
There isn't really any porn left on reddit, it's pretty much just OnlyFans ads now.
What’s funny about that is Reddit is mostly just an advertising front for onlyfans at this point
I mean yeah, and that's the piece of the pie they want. It will start with letting content creators charge and probably end by some ban or disincentive on direct only fans links.
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First they came for the porn subreddits, but I didn't say anything because I was not a porn subreddit.
Next wave of reddit exodus coming soon...
I followed Reddit Sync to Lemmy during the API fiasco. Even then, it was better than reddit had been in years. It's only gotten better.
Same bro, I'm still on Sync typing this to you 😄👍
Yes let's put a site that consists pretty much entirely of user-created content behind a paywall, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, Spez is a special kind of stupid.
I think people who are content with Reddit being the way it is deserve someone like Spez.
The users still on reddit are even dumber than him
Quora did it. I don't go there anymore.
Don't lie. When 70% of your search results are Quora, you are going to click, you are going to encounter the login banner, you are going to rage, and you are going to click away.
This why it pays to use a search engine that lets you blocklist sites
Nope, those "answers" didn't help even once, so now they're filtered out of search results, and DNS banned. Quora does not appear on my devices.
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Isn't it mostly bot-generated content?
Welcome to Lemmy former redditors
Thanks. I just switched - apparently just in time!
The revolution will be televised; behind a paywall.
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Some subreddits, like r/Watchexchange, where Redditors “buy, sell or trade watches,” according to the subreddit’s description, are centered on transactions. Huffman said the fact that users are already “transacting on Reddit kind of opens the door” for such monetization.
"Hey! How dare you exchange things with each other without giving us a cut!"
Whole lot of “Reddit, what are you going to do about the scammers now that we’re paying you?” posts are coming. The answer is nothing. They’ll do nothing.
Actually, they’ll write their lack of culpability more explicitly into the ToS, and then do nothing.
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Well, that’s the death of the free* forum. Went from BBS to newsgroups to phpBB to Reddit, each soft-killing its predecessor. But like WalMart killing Main Street, Reddit is going to kill the free forum.
Thank goodness for Lemmy and other free* social network software.
*free with the asterisk because we know it’s not free, we are enjoying the service that others volunteer to pay for.
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This is a terrible idea but let me entertain it for a second.
- Would this be like YouTube in which case content creators get a cut so they are incentivized to promote paid content (even though you don’t actually pay to subscribe to a channel).
- Or would this be just Reddit holding some content out for ransom behind a paywall.
- Or would this be some features that some paid subs have.
- or would some subs be a marketplace in which you can buy and sell.
I don’t see any of these panning out except maybe the last one, but why wouldn’t you go to other sites like Etsy for that?
From what i've read it would be like lounge but for a single sub? And it's only for new sub, old sub aren't eligible to turn premium. So if you want to access to 10 paywalled sub you have to pay for each sub.
I have a feeling they gonna wipe porn off the free one so they can only use the paywalled sub.
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Reddit has been shit since 2014, some would argue since its inception. It never properly replaced serious forums that specialized on their own niche, like PC hardware, gossip, cars, or whatever. The subreddit replacements always felt like lower quality EVEN THOUGH Reddit mods are (in general) more trigger happy than those running proper forums. The astroturfing, the deception, the lack of respect for its users, the UX dark patterns, it has all been getting worse and worse. Some haven't gotten the memo yet, that Reddit serves no one but itself, it's a cancer.
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astroturfing = "Public relations tactic using fake grassroots movements" (used by, among others, corporations, politicians (remember the Trump 2016 campaign on Reddit?), and governments)
UX dark pattern = user experience dark pattern = "A dark pattern is a design feature that subtly encourages users to perform a specific action." (like Reddit's "Howdy paddner" error if you use a VPN so that they can de-anonymize you)
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It's not even worth using for free
Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform.
Oh how exciting!
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