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[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To quote Cory Doctorow on enshittification:

Here is how platforms die:
first, they are good to their users;
then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers;
finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves.
Then, they die.

[-] hinterlufer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Paywalled subs existed for ages already. If you had Premium or whatever it was called you could access them. It was mostly uninteresting stuff going on there.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago

I remember getting premium once (got a few days for free for some reason) and I think the only "premium" sub was r/lounge or whatever and it was just people saying they got premium.

[-] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

My wife bought it for me as a present once misunderstanding what it was. I looked at those subs once and then never again

I still appreciate the effort, but by far the most useless gift she's ever given

[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

It's the only thing the people in that sub necessarily have in common, and is the theme of the sub. Very very pointless.

I think it's more likely that they paywall some of the NSFW subs than try to make more subs like r/lounge.

[-] Brad@beehaw.org 10 points 1 week ago

There is no content on Reddit valuable enough that I would pay for access to it.

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago

If they were smart they would find a way to paywall all the years-old posts where someone is like "hey how do I fix this specific part on my 1992 sewing machine" and it has a single reply with the answer.

[-] Brad@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

If they were smart

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