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.

  • Papa_Samu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    Reddit will allow you to remove ads for $50 a year but they don’t actually value their users at all. We already knew that of course but it became blatantly obvious during this whole situation.

    Reddit provided the servers, the infrastructure, and built functionality to allow communities to form on Reddit and for that they do deserve credit. However, the value from Reddit doesn’t come from commodity servers but rather all the content that the users have contributed over the many years.

    Ol’ Spez talks about that content as if it was his, as if Reddit created it. They have zero respect for you whether or pay $50 a year or not.