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I'm not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium

I'm not sure if this is well-known or not that they're pushing it now, but it's the first time I've seen it, especially on old.reddit.

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[–] JuustoKakku@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's literally nothing enticing in that package.

If they wanted people to pay for API access, why not include that in premium? Though not sure that would have gone much better.

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[–] Dee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm ashamed to admit I'm a former reddit premium member. I canceled my subscription after being a paying member for a number of years the day Spez started his bullshit. I just can't see myself going back. I just need to find an instance for my country that's actually active.

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[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's so evident that they're going to pump and dump the hell out of reddit, while some unknowledgeable investors are going to be left holding the bag. every move they make is a superficial show with no teeth. they're trashing reddit while dressing it up in designer clothes. it's blaring.

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[–] darkmatterstyx@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Wow, it was $29.95 a year. I canceled mine the other day and deleted my accounts today. Fuck Reddit.

[–] PieBandit@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

I canceled my premium a few days ago, I guess if they are charging apps millions for API access, why do I need to pay for premium to help Reddit.

[–] IrrationalNumber@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was listening to the interview with the dev of Apollo on John Gruber’s podcast and they brought up the idea that if Reddit wanted to monetize 3PA users, then force them to get a premium subscription. If all I needed to do was pay $50/year to surf reddit comfortably, I would probably do it in a heartbeat tbh

[–] sota2077@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I would pay $50/year to use Apollo. No question. I wouldn't take $50/year to use their first party App. I would rather just not use Reddit.

[–] TurretCorruption@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a pretty shit deal tbh. Ooohh ad free browsing and some free pngs you can tack onto your avatar or comments.

It sure is convenient that the second they kill third party apps they push a subscription model for ad free service on their ad riddled, barely functioning app...

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Once upon a time, I thought Reddit had the best, least intrusive way of doing ads, since they are essentially just pinned post and you can upvote/downvote and comment on them like any other posts, so the advertiser had to actually try to make good content like anybody else.

But the advertisers don't want even a remotely level playing field, they just want to throw money at reddit to get eyeball on their product, and reddit obliged, thinking the most valuable about reddit to advertisers is the amount of info they can scrape from your profile to personalize your ads, not realizing the most valuable aspect of ads on reddit IS the human aspect of direct community engagement.

Which is one of the reason why TikTok started off so well, because they FORCED companies to make good content for their ads to be seen and engaged with. But now by having the companies close the comments on their ads they are slowing going down the same path as well.

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 14 points 1 year ago

what the FUCK are "monthly coins"

Don't answer that, I actually prefer not knowing.

[–] rms1990@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had a premium account on there for many years, often through being awarded "gold" on posts and the rest of the time through just paying for premium because it was worth it to me to remove the ads (without having to use my ad-blocker) and have the other usability tweaks (as I preferred to reddit on desktop.) I cancelled the recurring payment at the start of this API debacle, because I don't need to be supporting a company which does that.

I'm terribly curious how the money which would be brought in by a user maintaining a premium subscription measures up against the money they'd be making forcing the crappy malware official client on that user and showing them ads.

[–] michaelcharles@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The funny thing to me is that when Reddit Gold first became a thing, I happily joined because I wanted to help support the platform and help pay for the servers. They used to have a little meter on the sidebar showing how far we've gone towards paying server costs.

Gone are the days when they had enough good will to get away with something like that.

[–] cranstonapple@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I was actually ok with paying them $50 a year for ad-free before they started de-modding people for protesting. Now they can go fuck themselves. I am sympathetic to their need to be profitable. But effectively taking over subreddits is totally unacceptable and Reddit is no longer Reddit.

[–] awh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I'd probably pay the $50/year if it included an API key so I could read with any client I wanted to.

[–] BendyLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha. This is where the Fediverse can take over if people don't take the piss.

Some years ago, my favourite tracker (The Box) went kaput - and I've known many others go down due to various issues - one of which is usually financial strains.

So people can donate - for someone earning 300 a week, it'd be trivial to throw 30 in the pot just one time in a year...

So sure, To be valued by Reddit, you must pay $50 per year - and if you don't, then you're not a customer, you're a commodity. Creators do so because they feel compelled to create and share, Mods do so because they have a personal need to contribute whether they get paid or not.

So the ONLY answer is to say 'Sure, we'll carry on - but it's clear we aren't valued by Reddit - so we'll do it outside'.

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[–] bkkcitypokey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Glad I deleted my account a few days ago.

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