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You'd probably get at most 5% signing up for the paid plan so the price would have to be more than 20x what they get from a free user seeing ads. Could work if they cut down the size of the organ but that has literally never happened



Also would force the platform into a death spiral. 95% of users leaving -> massive reduction in content -> more users leave -> no more content -> reddit is gone.




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