The announcements of paywalled subreddits and supporting intra-subreddit commerce seem like a recipe to compete with Patreon. If Reddit offered community manag

The announcements of paywalled subreddits and supporting intra-subreddit commerce seem like a recipe to compete with Patreon. If Reddit offered community management, payment processing, and content hosting, and undercut Patreon's 8% fee, I think it's a real winner. The benefit to Reddit is that they get a user in their ecosystem, looking at ads, subscribing to more subreddits, etc.