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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by user_named on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:02AM (#36289920)
You'd probably get at most 5% signing up for the paid plan so the price would have to be more than 20x what they get from a free user seeing ads. Could work if they cut down the size of the organ but that has literally never happened
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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by qwytw on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:54AM (#36290341)
Also would force the platform into a death spiral. 95% of users leaving -> massive reduction in content -> more users leave -> no more content -> reddit is gone.
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