Reddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the way

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman teased this and other changes in its second earnings call as a public company on Tuesday. In the months leading up to Reddit's IPO, and continuing since then, the site has aggressively pursued new revenue sources.

Reddit plans to explore AI-generated search capabilities. Q2 earnings reported a 54 percent increase in sales from the previous year. Reddit narrowed its net losses from 41 million to 10 million.

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humboldt

I'm just wondering how this would work: you'd pay to post your content?

splitsecond

I'm guessing it'll just be to join the subreddit and have a monthly fee attached. I'll bet this is for content creators like OF and all that

humboldt

Ah that would make sense with all the spam in the porn subreddits

splitsecond

Based on the track record, that would be the start to get everyone on board and slowly push the bigger subs to do it.

humboldt

That wouldn't surprise me at this junction. Killing third party apps led to a massive increase in adds with inline ones in comments.

bambam

It's just going to keep getting worse and worse over there huh?

justadevOP

It's almost like reddit wants to speed run into losing all its users. You'd think they would slowly introduce these things to keep from angering everyone.

bambam

Would be nice if people took the signs and moved somewhere better... like here.

justadevOP

I mention speakbits whenever talking about reddit's issues pop up. Admittedly, not many people actually talk about these things IRL

eldiscipulo

Always has been

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Reddit CEO hints that subreddit paywalls are on the way

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