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Reddit CEO Says Paywalls Are Coming Soon (gizmodo.com)
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Reddit, a platform founded in part on the premise of openly and widely sharing information, is ready to put up some paywalls. In a video Ask Me Anything (AMA) session hosted by CEO Steve Huffman following the company’s quarterly earnings report (which went poorly), the founder and exec said Reddit is actively testing ways to make some content require payment to access and plans to roll out a “paid subreddit” feature later this year.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Farm data, or sell the solution to a problem they participate in creating.