• @CluckN
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    405 days ago

    I’m wondering how they would charge people. Who would pay for a subreddit they’ve never been to? Could a non-paying user view the subreddit but be unable to post/comment?

    • @pivot_root
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      365 days ago

      Could a non-paying user view the subreddit but be unable to post/comment?

      Doubtful. If I remember the statistic correctly, 95% of social media users are lurkers. Greedy Little Pigboy wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to milk the remaining 19/20 users.

    • @[email protected]
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      165 days ago

      Let’s be honest - this will kill many subreddits. Of course some mods will start a paid subreddit next to an existing one and try to bring their users to subscribe. So expect those subs to become like those YouTubers who are constantly trying to push you to their Patreon.

      • @[email protected]
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        3 days ago

        or they allowed subs, but with immense amount of ads: require to watch video, or watch this ad for a certain of time to use it for free. just basing it off how aggressively youtube, facebook does it.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 days ago

      Could easily see certain subreddits being like OF or Patreon. Pay for access to content. Pretty tried and true business model and it will probably work well enough to keep it around.

      Even YouTube has “memberships” to channels now where you get bonus content and stuff.

      The people that are interested will pay and those that aren’t won’t.