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this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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I've been waiting to see how they're going to fuck up NSFW subs and I'm willing to bet that's where this is going.
I can only hope it affects the ones that focus on self-promotion, but I wouldn't be surprised if they just decide to charge users directly for access to NSFW subs entirely, since they already removed it entirely from the free API, which apps like RedReader use.(*)
I know I'm not the only one who basically only has an account for that stuff, although a lot of those subs have turned to shit over the last year or so, anyway. AI generated nonsense, self-promotion even when it's discouraged, bad moderation, some disappearing entirely because they were abandoned back last year...
(*) Technically, you can still view that content without an account via Old Reddit (or at least you could a few months ago, haven't checked recently), but that's inevitably going to be killed as well, it's just a matter of "when".
NSFW subs are exactly where my mind went as well, but monetizing some of that content could prove legally fraught. Instead, I'd wager the scope narrows a bit to a very specific OnlyFans type of model. Weren't they already looking at paid awards that provide a cash reward to the recipient? Sure sounds like a tipping model to me 🤔