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[-] n3cr0@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months ago

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

[-] reversebananimals@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months 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.

[-] RoseRose56@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

It's already happening, spoilers!!!!

[-] reallynotnick@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months 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".

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 28 points 10 months 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.

[-] reallynotnick@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months 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.

[-] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] goferking0 2 points 10 months ago

And subs can't opt out

[-] sjpwarren@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

You should definitely post something for those sweet dollars then.

[-] eee@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 5 points 10 months 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!

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 39 points 10 months ago

Isn't this copying Twitter again?

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

[-] shashi154263@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

Spez is a big fan of Musk.

[-] bobman@unilem.org 1 points 10 months ago

more like spaz

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 31 points 10 months ago

Reddit is dead

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months 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.

[-] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months 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.

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months 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.

[-] eee@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] probablynaked@artemis.camp 2 points 10 months ago

Commenting to save for later - great tip

[-] bobman@unilem.org 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] root@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago
[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 23 points 10 months ago

What could possibly go wrong?

[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

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

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

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

Buncha horseshit

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago
[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 10 months 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!

[-] nyoooom@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Wait that's the Unity model

[-] Rainhall@feddit.online 11 points 10 months ago

I bet this will be as lucrative as twitch streaming.

[-] geosoco@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Thormjolnir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

So us leaving did work :)

[-] 0xD@infosec.pub 7 points 10 months 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.

[-] athos77@kbin.social 7 points 10 months 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.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Ethalis@jlai.lu 6 points 10 months ago
[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Is there an app with minimal unobtrusive advertising?

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