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Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says (arstechnica.com)

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When asked about "new, key features that you plan to roll out for Reddit in 2025," Huffman responded, in part: “Paid subreddits, yes.”

Reddit's paywall would ostensibly only apply to certain new subreddit types, not any subreddits currently available. In August, Huffman said that even with paywalled content, free Reddit would "continue to exist and grow and thrive."

A critical aspect of any potential plan to make Reddit users pay to access subreddit content is determining how related Reddit users will be compensated. Reddit may have a harder time getting volunteer moderators to wrangle discussions on paid-for subreddits—if it uses volunteer mods at all. Balancing paid and free content would also be necessary to avoid polarizing much of Reddit's current user base.

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[–] ExtremeDullard 52 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Aren't you glad you did the work and gave Reddit the content it monetizes for free?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’m more impressed that they found buyers for my drunk shit posts.

Those can’t possibly be good for AI.

[–] ExtremeDullard 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

When then announced they'd be selling content for AI training, I went back to my old abandoned Reddit accounts and slightly altered all of my previous posts with actual content to be factually incorrect and misleading in subtle ways. It took me two months to rewrite everything, a few old posts at a time per day.

Now whatever technical or historical stuff I posted on Reddit is false and AI is training on that.

[–] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.funami.tech 1 points 5 hours ago

Thank you for feeding the garbage collector. Your service is appreciated. o7

[–] Pa_Kalsha@beehaw.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Even if you're not directly responsible for AI suggesting that you can make pizza cheese stringier by adding wood glue*, you're still doing good work

* which is technically true, in that this is the technique used to get this effect in adverts

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