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I hope to fucking god this kills Reddit, because Reddit itself provides no value. - It's a glorified PhpBB, there's nothing brand new about Reddit. - The comm

I hope to fucking god this kills Reddit, because Reddit itself provides no value. - It's a glorified PhpBB, there's nothing brand new about Reddit. - The comments they're making you pay for are mine, are yours, put out for free on a publicly visible website. Reddit sits down and wants to collect money from being a database? - Reddit wants to have its cake and eat it too. their content is valuable because people are out there being mods, for free. - Warning people in advance isn't acting in good faith. It's telling them there going to get fucked anyways, but hey, now you can plan for it! - Their app is utter dogshit. The mobile options will now be their dogshit app, for free, or quality third party apps that will soon start charging monthly to pay for the costs. This is a way to kill third party apps, make no mistake.

2Gkashmiri 4y ago
remember how a few short years ago reddit would guilt shame people into paying for "server costs" on a daily basis by buying awards? People were literally paying to keep reddit afloat for their own use. Now they are reversing course and saying "well there are costs to pay". the fuck is wrong with them. Users kept reddit afloat for all its life because they enjoyed it and got utility out of it. They paid for the access to all of reddit, api and all by awards and suddenly they want to charge money? what were people doing earlier? No one asked reddit to selfhost images and videos. Remove that and you can get back to 10 year old reddit in an instant but no. They want to bring algorithmic video recommendations ala tiktok. utter shit