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To be honest, this is actually a genius move when it comes to NSFW content.
Almost every pornographic sub has already been astroturfed by e-girls plugging their OnlyFans and Fansly links. Giving them the ability to paywall their content directly on Reddit effectively cuts out the middle-man and allows Reddit to undercut the likes of OF and Fansly with lower transaction fees.
there's no way to monetize lemmy, right?
just making sure i'm on the right liferaft...
This site isn't going to get popular enough to worry about. It's large, sure, but people go to reddit because the sheer volume of users means your chances of catching breaking stories or real contributions by witnesses to events, is just much higher, there's more of everything, and this is why they want to bleed it dry.
Just don't get too attached, Reddit was Digg's liferaft... Once Thing go to shit, move on.
That would probably depend on the instance creators. Donations are paying the way so far, but maybe someone will test out an instance with a registration fee or something. I don't see that working out unless every other instance is in dire straits and super unstable because they're running out of money.
Maybe yes, but realistically no. It's open source, so anyone could make their own clone of it with whatever monetization methods they want. If you ran an instance, you could also charge people to post on it. That said, with the way Lemmy is organized, people would just leave the offending instance for a different one.
Reddit's mechanics are not the whole story about why it became the juggernaut it is, the platform of people making their own forums isn't new. What happened was a few major sites like Digg, Somethingawful, Fark, 4chan and a lot of old-school staples on the internet from the 90's on through the 2010's suddenly lost popularity as their user base matured at the same time reddit moved in. There were other factors, sure I was around during it all but it's all quite complicated, but I'm pretty sure if reddit broadly started returning 404's tomorrow, Lemmy would see a slight jump in users but people are just going to want the next new thing and it would be some entirely new thing that captures the world's online browsing.
I've never seen a website replace another by copying it's layout and mechanics. I've seen a lot of popular platforms die, but never resurrect in the same form, people always want something novel and they want to feel like they're getting in ground-floor on something special. Reddit still offers that by giving users a chance to contribute early to conversations about current events, but if there were a new system that gave people a similar system and found some other way to give users a little serotonin boost like the votes do, then it would slay reddit pretty handedly.
there's probably a way to monetise everything but with the numbers of Linux people (yes we know you use arch shush) and anti-capitalists, i think we're safe?
Wait REQUIRING?
so if a sub gets popular enough they can just say "pay wall."
i think they will have a youtube/patreon type thing going on, free content on youtube, while thier patreon gets"exclusive content"
No one said he was a rocket surgeon.
Seems like a bad time to be introducing such a thing in the immediate future when European users are already seeking out alternatives to US tech giants and US users are losing their jobs and facing rising grocery prices.
Just remember, when the barrier to entry is low then the quality of participants declines.
Edit: I just realized that I should have specified an intellectual barrier. In the case of Lemmy that's the minuscule technical understanding or research ability needed to sign up and get on an instance. It's amazing how just that tiny obstructions helps keep out the dumbest of Reddit users.
When the barrier is monetary, are you really getting the best folks?
A quick visit to Twitter would make the answer abundantly clear - no