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Spez says $19.99 fee "enhances community dialogue through monetary validation"

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I legit cannot tell if this is real or not… it sounds terrible but also something that Reddit would do and think is great.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I could have sworn that reddit did in fact announce a similar system a few weeks ago. Or did I eat an onion?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They announced earlier this month that they're considering paid subreddits. No idea where that's at.

But yeah, this satire only works precisely because they've specifically expressed their interest in further opportunities for paid subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

My understanding is that they confirmed that paid subs would come this year

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I think this article has been posted here before

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yes it was satire.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, I ate the title. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Then it's not satire.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

I swallowed the onion whole.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Don't give them more ideas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The present moderation is not too far from this. A lot of the subreddits are just shells of what they used to be. Most posts are purged by some reddit algorithm moderation bot. You can check this yourself with r/usenet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can check this yourself with r/usenet.

and give them traffic? no thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Does old dot reddit give them traffic? Or you could even use some public redlib instance but you get my point :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Et Al, why are you always posting rage bait that barely even qualifies as satire?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Love the image. Can only imagine the prompts… “evil lizard men make stupid amounts of money selling utter shit.”?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You're not supposed to eat the onion bro

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lmao, damn, I forgot to check what community this was. I definitely believe that they would do such a shitty thing, though.

Satire is truly dead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It is 100% believable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I ate the onion too. This is 100% something Reddit would do - give it a year and there's a solid chance you and I will be puking that onion back up as this becomes reality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think IsGlitch understands satire.

If every comment is 'I ate the onion!,' that's just lying. It's making shit up in a way that people could easily believe it. Satire has to be more extreme than that. Failing to reach those extremes isn't commentary on the state of things; it's just bad writing.

Once again unfucking their latest efforts, to demonstrate the problem:

  • Facing monopoly accusations, Meta threatens to take the internet and go home

  • Amazon introduces "dynamic ownership" for e-books, matching real-world theft and fire rates

  • Assassin's Creed critics pretty sure there weren't any women in history

  • Grok AI 30% more likely to explain answers when told user is female

The Intel fab one is good, though; that's stupid enough to have clear intent. And honestly that Grok thing might work in real life. Satire is hard. That's no excuse.