Spez says $19.99 fee “enhances community dialogue through monetary validation”

  • @[email protected]
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    35 hours ago

    Love the image. Can only imagine the prompts… “evil lizard men make stupid amounts of money selling utter shit.”?

  • Miles O'Brien
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    14 hours ago

    Well, I ate the title. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

  • oh_
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    7017 hours ago

    I legit cannot tell if this is real or not… it sounds terrible but also something that Reddit would do and think is great.

    • @[email protected]
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      2216 hours ago

      I could have sworn that reddit did in fact announce a similar system a few weeks ago. Or did I eat an onion?

      • Zagorath
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        1316 hours ago

        They announced earlier this month that they’re considering paid subreddits. No idea where that’s at.

        But yeah, this satire only works precisely because they’ve specifically expressed their interest in further opportunities for paid subscriptions.

        • @Contramuffin
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          28 hours ago

          My understanding is that they confirmed that paid subs would come this year

  • @Gradually_Adjusting
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    412 hours ago

    Et Al, why are you always posting rage bait that barely even qualifies as satire?

  • @[email protected]
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    416 hours ago

    The present moderation is not too far from this. A lot of the subreddits are just shells of what they used to be. Most posts are purged by some reddit algorithm moderation bot. You can check this yourself with r/usenet.

    • @Skipcast
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      1816 hours ago

      You’re not supposed to eat the onion bro

      • @[email protected]
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        916 hours ago

        Lmao, damn, I forgot to check what community this was. I definitely believe that they would do such a shitty thing, though.

        Satire is truly dead

      • @TrickDacy
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        416 hours ago

        It is 100% believable.

    • @Sterile_Technique
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      413 hours ago

      I ate the onion too. This is 100% something Reddit would do - give it a year and there’s a solid chance you and I will be puking that onion back up as this becomes reality.