An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads?

Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by cies on Friday December 13, 2019 @07:43AM (#21781047)

Time for a new type of social. That FB users do not move for something less slik-polished-and-widely-used is understandible. But I believe a large part of the reddittors is more keen on privacy, openness, ad-free experience, uncensoredness, etc.

I like this one:

https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by kevinali1 on Friday December 13, 2019 @08:44AM (#21781416)

I think quality of the conversation will always trump "privacy, openness and ad-free".

We have to pay for quality. If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy.

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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by cies on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:03AM (#21781557)

Until you are like in HK and need to organize yourselves for some reason.

> If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy.

Paying with ads is also possible.

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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by WhompingWindows on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:41AM (#21781944)

But if you pay with ads, don't you need to see a LOT of ads, unless your privacy is compromised and they use trackers about you to give you targeted (i.e. more lucrative) ads?

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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by Karunamon on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:15AM (#21782850)

I don't see why topic-based ads based entirely on on-site participation would be a problem. No need for any user-hostile garbage, bucket your communities into topics, and let advertisers target the topics or the intersections between them. Ads are sold on-site, not via third party networks.

Reddit does this, but no idea how successful it is.

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Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? by cies on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:04AM (#21782166)

I'm not sure what it costs to have a service running and what non-tracking adds may yield nowadays.

So: not sure.

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