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> used to be freely accessible to everyone This costs money, especially at scale. As much as people hate it, nobody has solved the problem of how news organiza

> used to be freely accessible to everyone This costs money, especially at scale. As much as people hate it, nobody has solved the problem of how news organizations or most digital content platforms can actually make money.

marginalia_nu 3y ago
Wikipedia seems to do fine though.
tester756 3y ago
don't scale then :) there are still websites/forums with just thousands of users for decades.
Acrobatic_Road 3y ago
It can be solved by cutting needless expenses + charging money for things, but not necessarily for content. 1% of users pay for everyone else's ride.
gremlinsinc 3y ago
Had Reddit never updated their app and only relied on 3rd party apps then buy up the two with biggest market reach (assuming different app on Apple and Android), and simply used AdSense in subreddits until they could build a self serve ad center and operated extremely lean with no sales, 5 devs max, a few marketers and growth experts they could probably keep yearly expenses down to 5 million or less and ad revenues would far exceed that. They could also put affiliate marketing on Reddit sidebars and share profits with moderators and community regular contributors. On porn subs they could use the ads porn sites use that are annoying, but it's porn so who cares. They could create some sort of YouTube player with their own pre-roll ads for embeds. They could create a premium plan that actually has value, like tools for business and marketing to schedule posts to multiple subreddits, and get feedback on if the post will be moderated before it even gets posted. They could've given every profile it's own link tree, and created an onlyfans competitor so onlyfans models could just do all their work on Reddit itself. I've got 50 more ideas to monetize the shit out of Reddit, the admins are just too stupid to get anything done and figure this out. Many other business leaders could have made Reddit successful. Facebook and Reddit aren't a lot different and Facebook is one of the biggest companies on the planet.

marginalia_nu 3y ago

Wikipedia seems to do fine though.

tester756 3y ago

don't scale then :) there are still websites/forums with just thousands of users for decades.

Acrobatic_Road 3y ago

It can be solved by cutting needless expenses + charging money for things, but not necessarily for content. 1% of users pay for everyone else's ride.

gremlinsinc 3y ago

Had Reddit never updated their app and only relied on 3rd party apps then buy up the two with biggest market reach (assuming different app on Apple and Android), and simply used AdSense in subreddits until they could build a self serve ad center and operated extremely lean with no sales, 5 devs max, a few marketers and growth experts they could probably keep yearly expenses down to 5 million or less and ad revenues would far exceed that. They could also put affiliate marketing on Reddit sidebars and share profits with moderators and community regular contributors. On porn subs they could use the ads porn sites use that are annoying, but it's porn so who cares. They could create some sort of YouTube player with their own pre-roll ads for embeds. They could create a premium plan that actually has value, like tools for business and marketing to schedule posts to multiple subreddits, and get feedback on if the post will be moderated before it even gets posted. They could've given every profile it's own link tree, and created an onlyfans competitor so onlyfans models could just do all their work on Reddit itself. I've got 50 more ideas to monetize the shit out of Reddit, the admins are just too stupid to get anything done and figure this out. Many other business leaders could have made Reddit successful. Facebook and Reddit aren't a lot different and Facebook is one of the biggest companies on the planet.