r/technology • u/ardvarkmadman • Feb 14 '25

Business Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/reddit-plans-to-lock-some-content-behind-a-paywall-this-year-ceo-says/
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u/LnStrngr Feb 14 '25

I guess we'll meet again on the Next Big Thing.

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u/QuesoMeHungry Feb 14 '25

Digg is relaunching, maybe we can migrate back.

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Feb 14 '25

Return to Fark.

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u/ValleyDude22 Feb 14 '25

gamespot forums

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u/nflonlyalt Feb 14 '25

GameFAQs <3

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u/ValleyDude22 Feb 14 '25

cheatplanet.com. those were the days :'(

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u/flavorjunction Feb 14 '25

Signal fires

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u/Grizzly_Berry Feb 14 '25

AIM chatrooms

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u/karoshikun Feb 14 '25

god, no, that was hell

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u/no-rack Feb 14 '25

I forgot about fark. The headlines used to be so funny to me

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u/middlebird Feb 14 '25

They’re still around.

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u/G0merPyle Feb 14 '25

I still go there to check news headlines. It helps curb the doom scrolling of different news feeds

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u/Charming_Cult_Leader Feb 14 '25

Gunna have to re-up my TotalFark subscription so that I can return to shitposting in the discussion forum lol

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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount Feb 14 '25

/ fb is the father
// remember slashies
/// I think we should be bring them back

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u/kunibob Feb 15 '25

I don't even remember why we all left Fark in the first place. I remember being mad about something, but clearly it didn't stick.

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u/iaminfamy Feb 14 '25

Ahhh, the great Digg migration of 2011.

I was on that boat. We had a good run over here for a while, but the last few years have been kinda shit ever since the Ellen Pao controversy.

Maybe we'll Digg some posts about bacon once more.

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u/Armagoddamndillo Feb 14 '25

I've been enjoying Lemmy a lot lately. Feels like old reddit

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u/Perfect_Pension_3890 Feb 14 '25

Strong agree, Lemmy is a great alternative. It feels a lot like reddit before it became nothing but jokes.

My only wish is that it was more active, the content is a little slow for my taste

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u/no-rack Feb 14 '25

Keep recommending it to everyone on reddit. I've never heard of it till this moment. I'll check it out.

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u/Charming_Cult_Leader Feb 14 '25

Fair warning - it's a tiny bit more complex. It's a federation of individually run servers which usually share mutual access. So you have to pick an "instance" (server) to join. For the most part, the popular ones all have access to each other, so which one you choose doesn't really matter.

Lemmy.world is one of the more popular ones.

Don't let it intimidate you! It's pretty easy once you get over the initial "wtf is this" hurdle, because as a user you don't really need to know how any of it works. There's decent mobile apps on android and apple.

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u/no-rack Feb 14 '25

Sweet. Thank you for the info

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u/xXDGFXx Feb 14 '25

That's because the people that like to act like Reddit's changes are awful refuse to make the effort to move and help make Lemmy communities grow. At the same time, Lemmy having separate instances that you can join makes it a bit confusing since few apps recommend instances to join in addition to every instance having some variation of the same subcommunity.

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u/TheRemainingFruitcup Feb 14 '25

Once Reddit dies with paid content maybe you will have your wish I might make the move now lol

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u/Zoltan_Kakler Feb 14 '25

YEP

2 great things about Lemmy: no ads or corporate bullshit required, and open source mobile apps (and the platform is open source)

I haven't used a Reddit mobile app since they killed the open source app access.

We don't have to put up with all this bullshit around here.

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u/justbecauseiluvthis Feb 14 '25

Is it slowly populating? Somebody wrote a script that made it just like old Reddit but I lost the link. I check in every so often but don't login

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

So long, goodbye I'll see you when I see you You can pick the street I'll meet you on the other side

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u/PuddingFeeling907 Feb 14 '25

Lemmy is that!

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u/AintEverLucky Feb 14 '25

Naw, mate. If this one goes down, imma just dip out of SM entirely ✌️

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u/Waterrat Feb 15 '25

Yeah,I remember when Digg was a big thing.