Michigan Reddits Could Soon Be Locked Behind A Pay Wall

I always find it funny that publications or news organizations that claim to be focused on the local community will often lock certain stories behind a pay wall. What does that mean exactly? It means that unless you pay them money, you won’t be able to read the story that they are writing about.

Here on this site, we will never lock you behind a pay wall and our dedicated to not only entertaining, but informing the community about things that are happening in Southwest Michigan. Unfortunately, for the toxic community behind the Kalamazoo Reddit page they could soon be locked out of seeing anything that’s posted on the r/Kzoo Reddit page.

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The Reddit CEO Steve Huffman apparently has hinted that sometime in the future some sub credits make it paywall as they are trying to come up with different ways to bring in more money. According to Engadget, they are considering AI search and Pay Walling as some of those options:

The Reddit co-founder said the company would begin testing AI-powered search results later this year [and] that search could one day be a significant source of advertising revenue for the company.

He then continued to talk about how they would paywall Reddit as well to raise revenue:

I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has. But now we will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas, things of that nature.

It could then be speculated that over time, existing Reddit pages could get the paywall as well. Would this be enough for you to leave it permanently?

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