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Seems like there isn’t. But it’s weird, why not?
The audience and the posters are the content, not enough people want to start posting and commenting on a dead reddit clone to get it off the ground to entice more people
Given the rise of competent sounding LLMs since that time, it should be easier than ever to replicate that strategy...
Any typical sub today regardless of what the official topic of the sub is taken over by overly political content just barely reworded to fit the sub's topic.
Ironically the only thing for which Reddit is still a useful website is NSFW User Generated content on subreddits that focus on the NSFW bit and forbid any political or relevant discussion. Any typical sub today regardless of what the official topic of the sub is taken over by overly political content just barely reworded to fit the sub's topic.
Paywalls on people's content would work well if they have some type of revenue sharing, but paywalls on entire subreddits would be a disaster.
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The audience and the posters are the content, not enough people want to start posting and commenting on a dead reddit clone to get it off the ground to entice more people
IIRC, Reddit created tons of fake users and posts early on to pretend to have a userbase. Given the rise of competent sounding LLMs since that time, it should be easier than ever to replicate that strategy...
Those conditions don't really exist anymore.
From the article it sounds more like they want to introduce paid communities... which is not a bad idea. Many content creators have some sort of paid community, so if Reddit can take some of that market it could out work well for them.
Honestly just sounds like reddit wants to get some of the only fans money, reddit is already filled with only fans girls advertising but they're not getting a actual cut of it.
Are there any clones of reddit out there that have a reasonable level of popularity?
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IIRC, Reddit created tons of fake users and posts early on to pretend to have a userbase. Given the rise of competent sounding LLMs since that time, it should be easier than ever to replicate that strategy...
And also, there was less competition and a lot of lazy market leaders. Digg v3 facilitated reddit's rise in a week the same way that Skype's negligence and TeamSpeak's technical focus made is really easy for Discord to take over. Those conditions don't really exist anymore.
You had Voat spin out but it had the same problem, with a vastly different opinion of what wrongthink was. It didn't last long.
I think the between that, the unpopular API changes, new Reddit that nobody asked for, and now paywalls, there is an opening. One challenge is that it's hard to actually make money from the idea, which I guess is why there haven't been a lot of entrants in the first place.
Ironically the only thing for which Reddit is still a useful website is NSFW User Generated content on subreddits that focus on the NSFW bit and forbid any political or relevant discussion. Any typical sub today regardless of what the official topic of the sub is taken over by overly political content just barely reworded to fit the sub's topic.
that seems very anecdotal and does not mirror my experience