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.

  • TurretCorruption@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Id rather pay for a subscription for a forum site or something. I know echo chambers are dangerous, but sometimes you just need a gated community. Money makes it really easy to keep the lunatics out.

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        1 year ago

        The very same anonymity people use to get away with terrible behavior on free sites. I don’t see the downside here.

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          1 year ago

          You can’t hurt anyone by saying things online. But you can be hurt if the government does not like what you are saying.

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      Lunatics also have money.

      A site you pay for has incentive to keep you on their site for ads and data collection. One way to do that is to keep serving data you engage with. So, keeping you in a bubble.

      Diversity your sources.