When asked about “new, key features that you plan to roll out for Reddit in 2025,” Huffman responded, in part: “Paid subreddits, yes.”
Reddit’s paywall would ostensibly only apply to certain new subreddit types, not any subreddits currently available. In August, Huffman said that even with paywalled content, free Reddit would “continue to exist and grow and thrive.”
A critical aspect of any potential plan to make Reddit users pay to access subreddit content is determining how related Reddit users will be compensated. Reddit may have a harder time getting volunteer moderators to wrangle discussions on paid-for subreddits—if it uses volunteer mods at all. Balancing paid and free content would also be necessary to avoid polarizing much of Reddit’s current user base.
You forgot some other instances of not so cool people.
By the way, isn’t there somewhere written in your instance’s website that “this isn’t like Reddit” or something?
The part about not wanting this to become Reddit is more about content and site ethos, not size.
And sure, there are some ex-redditors whose views may not be welcome here, but there’s no need to put disclaimers in every comment.
Not sure what you are trying to get at?