But hopefully some of them will find their way to Lemmynsfw.
Ps for what it's worth I used to actually subscribe to Reddit. When it was called Reddit gold. But at some point they more than doubled the price and gave you crap tokens to give away to other people. I didn't want to do that and didn't want to pay so much so I quit. I think they can get a lot more subscribers if they just lowered the price somewhat.
Maybe too many people have already discovered it.
Maybe they are blocking crawlers or something.
There is a comment here that I regularly look back at as it remains evergreen:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363953
> My take is, if a community is constrained by quality (eg moderation, self-selecting invite-only etc) then the only way it grows is by lowering the threshold. Inevitably that means lower quality content.
> To some extent, more people can make up for it. Eg if I go from 10 excellent artists to 1000 good ones, chances are that the top 10% artwork created actually gets better.
> But eventually if you grow by lowering quality, then, well, quality drops.
> I suppose for very small societies, they may be limited by discoverability/cliquiness and not quality, so their growth doesn’t mesh with quality and so they could also get better with size.
> Note, “quality” doesn’t have to mean good/bad but also just “property”. When Facebook started, it was for kids from elite schools. It then gradually diluted that by lowering that particular bar. Then it was for kids from all schools. Then young people. Then their parents too. Clearly, it’s far from dying in absolute terms, but it’s certainly no longer what it initially was. To many initial users, it’s as good as dead though.
But yeah it was a better time.
My subs are spammed by onlyfans type content ... a lot.
And frankly at this point I think Reddit would be happy to be in some kind of business that makes money, any kind of business.
"The vast majority of our content is suitable for all ages, but out of concern for the minority that isn't and the evolving legal landscape, we felt that the best thing to do was silo our 18+ content. After looking at ways to implement this, while still respecting user privacy, our team came to the conclusion that a paywall is by far the most reliable method."
Sure it's bs, but that's standard for this world.