Some subreddits will require you to pay to see content.

Reddit, a platform founded in part on the premise of openly and widely sharing information, is ready to put up some paywalls. In a video Ask Me Anything (AMA) session hosted by CEO Steve Huffman following the company’s quarterly earnings report (which went poorly), the founder and exec said Reddit is actively testing ways to make some content require payment to access and plans to roll out a “paid subreddit” feature later this year.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    38·
    6 days ago

    Reddit might have some room to eat into Patreon’s model, allowing creators to put certain content behind paywalls. Lots of creators have their own subreddits already meant to facilitate community conversation in a way that comments on Patreon posts don’t totally allow for. So perhaps there’s some room for Reddit to sneak into that space.

    That might actually work.

    • Arbiter@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      But why would they do this through Reddit and not Patreon?

      You can already make private subreddits.

    • misk@sopuli.xyz
      21·
      6 days ago

      That’s why porn (which Reddit calls „NSFW content” not to scare advertisers) is not accessible over API at all. We should refer to Reddit as „that porn website” now because that’s what they’re going to make money on.