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[-] [email protected] 92 points 2 years ago

Great! Now they want the final stab with content being created by bots. Haha

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

I'm guessing that's exactly what they want, actually.

A bunch of content regurgitaters who will keep their lurker numbers high and won't talk back when Reddit further enshitifies its platform.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

It's already happening, spoilers!!!!

[-] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago

Reddit's post was distinctly non-specific about the dollar amounts people can expect to see

Lol, so basically "we might give you money if we feel like it".

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Here is another article it seems to have more info https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/25/reddit-will-start-paying-you-real-money-for-your-karma/

redditors need to earn at least 10 gold within a 30-day period — if they don’t reach the threshold, the balance rolls over. For users with between 100 and 4,999 karma, they will receive $0.90 per 1 gold. Once you earn more than 5,000 karma, you can earn $1 per gold.

It's so bad... and what will happen is spam cheap bot content to get the gold amount necessary to get paid.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Question is who is just throwing $2 at comments? Should users just cut out the middleman and post their Venmo/Patreon handles or something?

If the app stores take a 30% cut then they are making 60cents off the $2 and Reddit takes in 40¢ while the user gets $1.

Just pay me the dollar directly, be sure to upvote, comment below and subscribe for more comments like this.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And it also excludes NSFW or other non-monetized content.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

And subs can't opt out

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You should definitely post something for those sweet dollars then.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

"Reddit, what's the sexiest sex you've ever sexed? [Serious]"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Dollars? That seems optimistic to me. It would probably be an amount comparable to the change you’d find on the ground in a parking lot.

If you’re an extremely active user who has no life, and posts all day every day, then we might be talking dollars. Perhaps even double digits over the course of a year!

[-] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

By all means, Trust Reddit to do right by its content creating users.

That is, after all, the reason most of us are here.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Isn't this copying Twitter again?

This is a good way to kill any sense of genuine community on your app.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

Spez is a big fan of Musk.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

more like spaz

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Reddit is dead

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Besides relevant search results i stopped going to reddit completely for here. I went there today to see their thoughts on this matter, just to not see it mentioned in hot or top at all.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

I sort of miss the more 'niche' but non techie / nerdy communities but just find myself reading books again, which is also less stressful.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I too have been reading more. I kinda miss the random tidbits i picked up from hours of reddit though, but being only on lemmy is way healthier.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i've been using rdx.overdevs.com - it's a great way to read comments on mobile with a great UI, and you can import your list of subscriptions in a .json file. The only issue is that you can't use it to post, so it's read-only. I view that as a feature and not a bug.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Commenting to save for later - great tip

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, it's rough how only certain big subreddits moved here and have regular users.

Now the big ones feel niche, and the niche ones... well, nobody engages.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

What could possibly go wrong?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

My ~~bots~~ boys are about to make so much money for me.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Me and the ~~bots~~ boys whipping up some killer ~~recycled content~~ new memes for the ~~bots~~ reddit community to enjoy!

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

I wonder how much they'd pay me for my 40k karma...five bucks? Six?

Buncha horseshit

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, once you get to a certain amount of karma, you roll over into the cents, eventually going negative and you owe them now!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Wait that's the Unity model

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I bet this will be as lucrative as twitch streaming.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Who says there's no innovation in tech companies today? lol

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Another step to push authentic humans to non-corporate platforms ...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

So us leaving did work :)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Oh my god they did it, they actually did it. So many years of jokes and they actually did it lmfao

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

That's hilarious. Was this the plan all along or was this more of a reactionary thing? I think it's a mix of both.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

So many limits and restrictions, including getting ten gold a year, to cash out. I don't see reddit having to give out much money here.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I’d hate it if I was chained to reddit - but I’m not, so lol!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

No thanks. I'm not in it for the money... or the empty promise of money.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Is there an app with minimal unobtrusive advertising?

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