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I don't think it's wrong for Spez to charge for API access, but the rates he's vowing to charge are excessive and clearly designed to nuke third-party apps from their ecosystem.

As for how I'd make money from Reddit in his shoes, I'd:

1. Add more features for Reddit Premium, like being able to view more than 1,000 items on the front page, video uploads in comments, or enhanced search functionality.
2. Add OnlyFans-style subscriptions or revenue sharing for partnered subreddits/users, with a 90% to 10% cut between content creators and Reddit.
3. Bring back RPAN as a full time streaming platform to compete with the likes of Twitch/Kick.

They could easily do that by:

1. Threatening to site-wide ban moderators who keep their subreddits dark (on the basis that they're disrupting the regular function of the website.)
2. Actually banning them if they follow through on another blackout.
3. Doing a bit of overtime to moderate /r/redditrequest, on the condition that people don't request subs that already have more than two million subscribers.

I've been a lot more active on Beehaw over the past few days than on Reddit. Tried to get into Kbin but the servers have been remarkably unstable and I don't like the fact that you can only view 25 comments at once.

I think a lot of subreddits will fold. Your typical reddit moderator is hungry for power and having that power taken away from them is probably more terrifying to them than losing Apollo/RIF/BaconReader/Sync/Relay.

https://wegotthiscovered.com/social-media/reddit-reportedly-removing-moderators-and-forcing-subreddits-to-reopen-to-break-protest/

As somebody who isn't even a Star Trek fan, I still think a flood of trekkies is infinitely cooler than a flood of white supremacists which have killed similar platforms.

Apparently the head mod of /r/Tumblr has already been forcibly demodded. A bit weird that Tumblr of all places has been the starting point.

The News and Worldnews subreddits prove there are people still willing to lick Spez's boots.

Rumble is a major one, but they're more well-known for housing creators that have been banned from mainstream platforms, like Andrew Tate, Sneako, Donald Trump, etc.

To be fair, he isn't wrong.

I cannot see another blackout happening. I think a sizeable chunk of Reddit's moderators would go back if it otherwise meant losing power and influence on one of the largest social media sites.

Of course a lengthier or indefinite blackout of most of Reddit's communities would cause major disruption.

Fully agree. As much as I see good in the adult entertainment industry, I utterly loathe OnlyFans as a platform and find it increasingly repugnant the more I see it in use.

Why?

1. It directly falls afoul of Reddit's rules on self-promotion, and it feels like e-girls are just being given a free pass by the admins to spam and astroturf the fuck out of every NSFW sub.

2. There's an element of findom (financial domination) and emotional exploitation to OnlyFans. It exploits vulnerable men by design and has pretty much been synonymous with the untrue notion that if you shower a lady with money and other lucrative gifts, she just might maybe notice you.

3. In the early days, OnlyFans had allegedy turned a blind eye towards CSAM (child sexual abuse material) and it feels hypocritical that Mindgeek faced far greater backlash from stakeholders for similar transgressions. To my knowledge Visa and MasterCard for instance are still working with them...

4. It's ruined the NSFW side of Reddit because none of the interactions with exhibitionists you'd otherwise have feel genuine, that's if they even interact with anybody on a site other than on their OnlyFans.

5. More of an issue with Reddit. Some asshole moderator didn't agree with what I wrote in a past comment and so added an Automoderator filter so I'm effectively shadowbanned from using words like "OnlyFans" on a lot of subreddits. It's awful when you have to get creative with words to get past draconian censors.

6. Rather than destroying the patriarchy, it reinforces the notion of gender roles.

I know I will. Reddit has become complete dog water over the past few years and I've been looking for a decent alternative for a while now.

Literally the only thing Reddit has going for it is troves of NSFW content and some incredibly niche communities that Lemmy doesn't yet have answers for.

It's a damn necessity if you want to avoid a situation like Mastodon had with Gab joining the fediverse.

Imagine the absolute shitshow if a white-supremacist Reddit clone like Poal suddenly integrated their site with Lemmy...