Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform
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What we're seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don't think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.
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Youtube is probably the most difficult platform on the internet to replace. Video content delivery is extremely resource heavy and technically complicated, especially once you start to scale. Many, many competitors have attempted it over the years, and while some found their niche, none of them have achieved anywhere close to the scale of Youtube.
It took decades of Youtube to become profitable, only doing so after achieving mind-boggling economy of scale. The majority of humans on earth have used Youtube. About half of all (global) internet users use it monthly. I don't know if any other platform can claim stats like that.
Youtube is one of those platforms that only exists because it got a head start in the unique conditions of the early internet. I don't know if it's even possible to create a true competitor, though I could see multiple platforms taking over different niches.
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Honestly, I was just giving up going here, lemmy is very complicated, also I miss my beautiful snoo
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Oh god, youâve out me down a rabbit hole. Thank you!
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Thank you!
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I managed to stave off the threats until a couple of months ago since someone put a reddit request in. Oh well, fuck spez and reddit.
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More ads? There's already a bunch of them mixed with posts and comments. What more, force people to watch an ad before loading pages?
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It's not that everyone's getting used to the current hellscape of the internet. Kids born today have never experienced a world without it. I watched my niece playing on my dad's phone, and she was just blasting through every single ad, interacting with every ad until it took her to the install page, and then she moved on to the next ad. People were upset about the tiktok ban cause they didnt care about their data. Shit like that is wild to me, coming from the early internet era.
Unless countries step up with better tech laws, I only see it getting worse from here.
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I figure as long as you visit with adblock enabled and don't post anything, you're not contributing to them in any meaningful way.
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You have my respect. I'm guessing all the mods with a tad of integrity left during this time, leaving their subreddits closed
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Do it, please, the subreddits need to migrate here
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There are ads in comments now?
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Yea adds have been in comments for at least a year now
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Yeah, people like me and I assume you, who used to browse reddit via a third party app or with RES + an adblocker on pc did not see it but it's a bit insanely how much ads there's already on reddit right now. I migrated to GNU and firefox last week and forgot to add the extensions as I was just looking for some information in the Endeavour subreddit and I was shocked at the state of "default" reddit.... I'm glad I left and I hope most of the userbase will...
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Yep, ads masquerading as comments. It's awful. I'm so glad I moved to Lemmy.
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Over half of us in r/Android left and while a few of headed over here and made our very own instance, some stopped on and, I paraphrase
I'm not seeing some shitheel coming and doing spezs deeds, and I'll just mass approve/remove shite
Brave fucker that mod.
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Youâre gonna pay the mods then, right?
Right?
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fuck /u/spez
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History, reputation, relationships (this a nuch bigger problem on mastofon) (yes migration as a lurker is easy)
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Agreed, and to be fair I still stop in at niche subreddits I used to follow to see what's new, but never logged in.
