Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious::undefined

  • Wolf_359@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I said this in another thread - I bet they’re going the YouTube route and are going to start allowing content creators to make money.

    Might sound good on the surface but it’s absolutely going to shred what Reddit used to be. Goodbye discussion forum and hello new social media.

    • kescusay@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I can’t think of a single good reason for anyone to actually want that. Reddit isn’t a site for content creation, it’s an aggregator. It works for YouTube because, well, it’s YouTube. It’s practically synonymous with content creation. But exactly zero people are on Reddit for that.

      • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Also its a forum and its appeal is asking questions to real people. Paying users will destroy that appeal.

        • Holyginz@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          The company doesn’t care. They don’t actually understand what reddit is/was and have decided they want it to be something else that they can squeeze money out of. Whatever they end up with is going to be bland and nothing like what it was before. Doubt it will get them what they want in the end.

          • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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            1 year ago

            They don’t seem to realize Reddit isn’t that special. It’s a forum… Digg and Slashdot thought they were special too Myspace before that…

            They’re just where most people are at the moment. That can and likely will change. Whether it’s Lemmy or something else entirely.

            • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              Yeah it’s not like Facebook where I need all my friends to move. I just need a few thousand people to move to Lemmy and I’ll never need Reddit again.

              • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
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                1 year ago

                And since Lemmy is already at, iirc, the 200,000 mark, and is only part of the greater fediverse… I can’t speak for anyone else, but I don’t feel lonely here.

                • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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                  1 year ago

                  Same. Honestly I’m getting more responses and conversations than I do in Reddit. And they’re way more positive

        • NightOwl@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          Real people who don’t expect something back in return from you is what made reddit special. Advice is given because someone wanted to help as opposed to wanting a like, subscribe, notification bell, patron, merch store, etc. Now they want to turn into into some influencer platform full of people trying to sell shit whether it’s themselves or some crap.

          • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Exactly. People on Reddit usually don’t have any incentive to lie about e.g. the quality of a fridge brand. Give them an incentive and it immediately becomes as useless as Google seo spam