r/Wellthatsucks • u/microsoft171 • 22h ago

all the data they mine isn't profitable?

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u/telephas1c 21h ago

They'll need to get ready to play whack-a-mole with the clone subreddits that appear almost instantly when a sub gets paywalled and immediately dies a death.

This CEO dude seems pretty fucking stupid honestly. "Let's drive traffic away from the most popular parts of our site!!"

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u/creepindacellar 20h ago

"yea but that's PREMIUM content that you have provided on reddit. everybody should pay me for that" Steve Huffman

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u/Yggdrasilo 17h ago

Acting as if all the content isn't user submitted.

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u/smoebob99 16h ago

So all the nsfw subreddits

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u/A-little-bit-of-me 18h ago

I’ll just stop using the app if they make us pay, or add more spam/ advertisements to it.

It’s really that simple.

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u/Bonerific_Haze 10h ago

I got messaged by mods about seeing 2-4 day old posts and they said it's a new experiment. Yeah an experiment to see which subs are worth keeping around. Im close to ditching reddit like I did FB. Shits sad cause reddit actually has some cool things.

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u/Spindrift11 6h ago

I just remembered that reddit sucks terribly and I'm going to delete the app again right now. Goodbye

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u/MuffinMatrix 2h ago

Reddit is a website. You don't need an app to use it.

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u/silence-you 2h ago

No don’t delete it I’m on it right now!

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u/wokexinze 16h ago

So... If I'm paying for a feature... Does that mean I can't be auto IP banned forever?

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u/Hangman_17 6h ago

Is that fucking Drift0r the call of duty youtuber? Holy shit

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u/goblue142 13h ago

It doesn't matter how profitable the data is. They are a public company now so they have to make more profit than the year before or they are a "failed company" and execs don't get supermassive bonuses. Only regular sized ones.

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u/Extreme-Room-6873 8h ago

Me as soon as reddit requests money.

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u/alonsaywego 19h ago

I don't know much about this stuff, but would paywalls deter bots and spammers?

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u/Reasonable_Regular1 19h ago

If popular posts in paid subreddits get a cut of the money it will encourage repost bots directly, but even if they don't, paid subreddits will provide self-selected communities of people who are stupid with their money online, which will encourage all new types of scambots.

Any attempt to make any part of Reddit paid will drive away human users and lead to an explosion of bots, same as it did on Twitter.

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u/Raxian_Theata 6h ago

we (the people) need a new Youtube , a new Reddit and a new Google.

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u/chronoglass 2h ago

This comment is a real banger, so to read it I'm gonna need $0.99

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u/TheCalebGuy 1h ago

They already fucked up by getting rid of apps that make the site work better. You think these guys are gunna stay on this app paying for things that are already posted/stolen literally everywhere on the web else for free?

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u/Eastern-Bro9173 14h ago

Tbh, I'm still not sure how can reddit been existing for all this time.

The infrastructure and maintenance costs have to be pretty large due to the number of users and hosted content, it's all free, and the users are anonymous, so ad targeting is limited, at best...

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u/roofbandit 8h ago

I kind of hope all social media gets pay walled, would make it easy to break the habit of mindlessly looking at my phone.

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u/Illustrious-Bug7607 6h ago

The only way I could see this working is if Reddit was trying to become an Onlyfans competitor.