Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
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It will be for NSFW stuff I bet.
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it's always porn...
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in this case it sort of makes sense as banks and credit card providers might be more willing to provide better terms of there are increased guard rails for accessing porn.
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Yeah but there is a FOSS nature about it. At least ANYONE can do whatever they want with the comments and posts I make public instead of just whichever company pays reddit for API access.
And reddit has some legal jargon about co-owning the copyright to whatever you post over there but lemmy doesn't so you technically have more protection here to your own intellectual property.
And privacy is a whole different can of worms as I don't think ruud is harvesting telemetry to sell to advertisers and whatnot.
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Privacy is invisible. Being barred from content unless you pay is highly visible. Most people only really care about whether their end user experience is affected. People cared when their favourite apps got shut down, but they don't really give a shit their data is sold. We've been so desensitized to having our data sold these days that most people have stopped caring.
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There is also an inherent kind of entitlement that people have. Putting the lack of visibility of privacy on the totem pole of priority, people like free things. When you start to charge them for an objectively worse service, you tend to piss off your user base.
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At least Lemmy is open source and there isn’t any advanced analytics running and telling server operators exactly what you look at and for how long. And if there was, it would be discovered quickly and you could host your own instance and only look at content locally.
Your posts aren’t private. But that’s the whole point so that they can be seen and federated
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Again though I'm seeing it, at least working well, would be like a patreon, I wouldn't think of it as a reddit "power user", I'd imagine that more as courting people that already have some form of business. Say authors, artists, video game developers, youtube video creators etc... that would be posting stuff either early or exclusively there.
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Incoming a bunch of clickbait and fake advertisement about paid content that a bunch of redditors will pay for to access, and then realize the content isn't there, isn't what they thought it would be or isn't worth paying for / is shit.
Hey, pay to see my sub guys, I promise there are posts with pictures of [????]. You pay and then it is all AI generated pics. Etc.
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Looks like it's wallstreetbets of all things.
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sure, but like 90% of the porn on there is just to funnel people into the creators only fans these days. this could be good for those users. if they offer better terms with a lower cut than only fans i could see it taking off. there's no discoverablility on only fans. they basically have to advertise elsewhere. and no one wants to go to a whole different website to make a whole different account when they're already mid jerk. conversely, not many people will go to a porn site to make an account if they aren't already looking to get off. removing that barrier for people that already have payment info on Reddit could turn it into a 1 click transaction. if this takes off well enough they could take a lot of only fans' customer base.
i didn't really like it, but it makes some amount of sense. personally, i think the quality of the porn on Reddit has done down almost perfectly in line with the rise of only fans. Internet porn was at its best when it wasn't monetized and the people making it were doing it because they felt like it and it probably got them off. now it's just a job for most of them. a job that they often get real sick of real quick when they realize the amount of work, organization, and maintenance it requires to actually be successful on the platform. people that just did it for the love of strangers seeing them have sex didn't have that burdens and could just upload what they wanted when they wanted. i guess it's just like any art. it's better when it's not commercialized.
on the other other hand, i do think only fans and the democratization of the porn industry has been good for creators. the porn industry was exploitative and very unhealthy for the actors. they often did meth and downed copious amounts of boner pills to make it through long shoot days with numerous angles and shots. but idk... i never liked that kind of studio porn anyway. it's just annoying that the replacement for it, which i also don't typically like has taken over so much of the amateur space.
shit sorry... this became about the porn industry as a whole... i have many opinions on it because I used to work in the paid porn industry on the broadcast maintenance side. but yeah, this Reddit things could work out if they don't completely fuck it up.
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No it wouldn't. People need to understand that open source provides 0 security against intentional abuses when there's a networking layer involved.
I could be running an analysis on the data your instance handed to my instance just like Reddit is ... and you would have absolutely no way of knowing.
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Most of the terrible stuff Reddit did only affected a tech-literate minority, at least knowingly. Most users didn't use 3rd party apps so they didn't even understand what the uproar was about, and we should know perfectly well people don't care about their privacy.
In contrast, this change is likely to affect day-to-day habits of at least some people.
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Yes please do.
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I hope so. Enshittification means people get more incentive to look for alternatives, making the internet more decentralized. Reddit CEO doing his part!
