Reddit to pay moderators and creators?? (lemmyunchained.net)

submitted 1 year ago by LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Has there been any indication that reddit may pay creators and moderators, like youtube and meta and other platforms do? or are they just expecting to pocket all the cash?

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[-] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In what universe is paying people for something they are willing to do for a free a sustainable business model?

[-] LachlanUnchained@lemmyunchained.net 4 points 1 year ago

The meta and YouTube universe.

[-] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Youtube has advertisers on individual videos which requires more moderation than endless text posts.

Or to put it another way; video advertisers ask for a lot more than just crappy spam reddit post ads.

[-] Tangent@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's probably why YouTube has such a hair trigger on demonetizing, removing, and copyright striking videos.

[-] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, and also video/audio content is much more ripe for copyright claims than image/text content, since it's all owned by giant corporations. For example the music version of all the art bots now was only trained on royalty free/copyright free music... I wonder why.