[rsync]

"I'd like a reddit-like site that is more exclusive, it filters out the non-serious users with a yearly subscription fee of say $100."

This exists: https://www.metafilter.com/

The fee is $5 which turns out to be an insurmountable barrier for just about everyone. I personally like the site very much.

[ajryan]

Metafilter has just about the highest groupthink quotient of any site I know of. Every single post ends up being about social justice, even when it isn't.

[rsync]

Agreed. I know that going in, though, and I still enjoy a lot of it.

[thanatropism]

About two years ago I tried membership in The WELL, the semi-mythical web community that used to be featured in the printed booklets that came with 28.8kbps dial-up modems.

The retro interface was nice but the populace was incredibly homogeneous and everything was saturated with San Francisco liberal politics. I concluded that the insurmountable joining fees led the website to be frozen with a small self-referential community.

[GSimon]

This is cool, I may join! Thanks