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I suspect that this will end up applying to 18+ Reddit, it would make them compliant with the latest "ID up" hotness, and create a much-needed revenue stream. I

I suspect that this will end up applying to 18+ Reddit, it would make them compliant with the latest "ID up" hotness, and create a much-needed revenue stream. I don't think it will work well, in fact I can't imagine many people paying for access to what's left of Reddit at all, but they're a public company and have to at least try to generate an income now.

duxup 2y ago
Oh that would make sense. My subs are spammed by onlyfans type content ... a lot.
wkat4242 2y ago
It would really be the end of the amateur exhibitionist community there though. This is already under heavy pressure from all the OnlyFans teasers. But hopefully some of them will find their way to Lemmynsfw. Ps for what it's worth I used to actually subscribe to Reddit. When it was called Reddit gold. But at some point they more than doubled the price and gave you crap tokens to give away to other people. I didn't want to do that and didn't want to pay so much so I quit. I think they can get a lot more subscribers if they just lowered the price somewhat.
- stevenicr 2y ago
  1st ddg result shows /post/151 and that page is a cloudflare 504 gateway timeout page. Maybe too many people have already discovered it.
  - wkat4242 2y ago
    It's working fine, https://lemmynsfw.com/ https://lemmynsfw.com/ (note: obviously very NSFW!) Maybe they are blocking crawlers or something.
- dannyphantom 2y ago
  Do you remember when buying Reddit gold gave you a coupon to buy beef jerky on that one website? It was a much better time on that website when it was still niche and felt (at least to me) like a "real community". There is a comment here that I regularly look back at as it remains evergreen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363953 > My take is, if a community is constrained by quality (eg moderation, self-selecting invite-only etc) then the only way it grows is by lowering the threshold. Inevitably that means lower quality content. > To some extent, more people can make up for it. Eg if I go from 10 excellent artists to 1000 good ones, chances are that the top 10% artwork created actually gets better. > But eventually if you grow by lowering quality, then, well, quality drops. > I suppose for very small societies, they may be limited by discoverability/cliquiness and not quality, so their growth doesn’t mesh with quality and so they could also get better with size. > Note, “quality” doesn’t have to mean good/bad but also just “property”. When Facebook started, it was for kids from elite schools. It then gradually diluted that by lowering that particular bar. Then it was for kids from all schools. Then young people. Then their parents too. Clearly, it’s far from dying in absolute terms, but it’s certainly no longer what it initially was. To many initial users, it’s as good as dead though.
  - wkat4242 2y ago
    Uhh no I don't remember the jerky thing but I guess that was US only. We don't even have beef jerky in these parts (save for import stores) But yeah it was a better time.
fullshark 2y ago
That would make them explicitly pornographers would it not? I think that's not the business they want to be in.
- EA-3167 2y ago
  It's the business they've been in for quite a while, at least in part. If you run a site that's a quarter pornography, you're a pornographer right? Granted that's by number of subs, we don't know what percentage of traffic/engagement is driven by porn, but with a quarter of the site dedicated to the stuff it must be substantial. And frankly at this point I think Reddit would be happy to be in some kind of business that makes money, any kind of business.
  - fullshark 2y ago
    Yeah but it's different if you have an explicit porn income stream versus having a platform that has porn on it. I think Apple would have to ban their app for example if they did this. Advertisers would not want to advertise on the porn app either.
    - EA-3167 2y ago
      They could spin it as "protecting children" by "putting a paywall on explicit material" rather than "We are a porn app." "The vast majority of our content is suitable for all ages, but out of concern for the minority that isn't and the evolving legal landscape, we felt that the best thing to do was silo our 18+ content. After looking at ways to implement this, while still respecting user privacy, our team came to the conclusion that a paywall is by far the most reliable method." Sure it's bs, but that's standard for this world.

duxup 2y ago

Oh that would make sense. My subs are spammed by onlyfans type content ... a lot.

wkat4242 2y ago

It would really be the end of the amateur exhibitionist community there though. This is already under heavy pressure from all the OnlyFans teasers. But hopefully some of them will find their way to Lemmynsfw. Ps for what it's worth I used to actually subscribe to Reddit. When it was called Reddit gold. But at some point they more than doubled the price and gave you crap tokens to give away to other people. I didn't want to do that and didn't want to pay so much so I quit. I think they can get a lot more subscribers if they just lowered the price somewhat.

stevenicr 2y ago
1st ddg result shows /post/151 and that page is a cloudflare 504 gateway timeout page. Maybe too many people have already discovered it.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  It's working fine, https://lemmynsfw.com/ https://lemmynsfw.com/ (note: obviously very NSFW!) Maybe they are blocking crawlers or something.
dannyphantom 2y ago
Do you remember when buying Reddit gold gave you a coupon to buy beef jerky on that one website? It was a much better time on that website when it was still niche and felt (at least to me) like a "real community". There is a comment here that I regularly look back at as it remains evergreen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363953 > My take is, if a community is constrained by quality (eg moderation, self-selecting invite-only etc) then the only way it grows is by lowering the threshold. Inevitably that means lower quality content. > To some extent, more people can make up for it. Eg if I go from 10 excellent artists to 1000 good ones, chances are that the top 10% artwork created actually gets better. > But eventually if you grow by lowering quality, then, well, quality drops. > I suppose for very small societies, they may be limited by discoverability/cliquiness and not quality, so their growth doesn’t mesh with quality and so they could also get better with size. > Note, “quality” doesn’t have to mean good/bad but also just “property”. When Facebook started, it was for kids from elite schools. It then gradually diluted that by lowering that particular bar. Then it was for kids from all schools. Then young people. Then their parents too. Clearly, it’s far from dying in absolute terms, but it’s certainly no longer what it initially was. To many initial users, it’s as good as dead though.
- wkat4242 2y ago
  Uhh no I don't remember the jerky thing but I guess that was US only. We don't even have beef jerky in these parts (save for import stores) But yeah it was a better time.

fullshark 2y ago

That would make them explicitly pornographers would it not? I think that's not the business they want to be in.

EA-3167 2y ago
It's the business they've been in for quite a while, at least in part. If you run a site that's a quarter pornography, you're a pornographer right? Granted that's by number of subs, we don't know what percentage of traffic/engagement is driven by porn, but with a quarter of the site dedicated to the stuff it must be substantial. And frankly at this point I think Reddit would be happy to be in some kind of business that makes money, any kind of business.
- fullshark 2y ago
  Yeah but it's different if you have an explicit porn income stream versus having a platform that has porn on it. I think Apple would have to ban their app for example if they did this. Advertisers would not want to advertise on the porn app either.
  - EA-3167 2y ago
    They could spin it as "protecting children" by "putting a paywall on explicit material" rather than "We are a porn app." "The vast majority of our content is suitable for all ages, but out of concern for the minority that isn't and the evolving legal landscape, we felt that the best thing to do was silo our 18+ content. After looking at ways to implement this, while still respecting user privacy, our team came to the conclusion that a paywall is by far the most reliable method." Sure it's bs, but that's standard for this world.