When you stop supporting your community, your community stops supporting you.
I pay for my favourite social media sites (#privileged) but I now only pay for Tumblr, having cancelled my Twitter subscription earlier (we all know why) and now Reddit.
Screenshot of a pop-up window on a website asking to confirm that the user wants to cancel their (Reddit) Premium subscription.
I fully support platforms working to build multiple revenue streams, by the way, which is why I pay for them in the first place.
Heck, I’ve been paying for Reddit Premium since 2016!
Screenshot of a Reddit ‘trophy case’ box showing four trophies: Ten-Year Club, Gilding V, Verified Email, and Reddit Premium (since July 2016)
But there are ways to charge for usage and then there are ways to charge for usage.
That’s enshittification for you, right? *sigh*
I guess over the next few months we’ll see just how far along the “…and find out” stage we’re at for Reddit.