My decision to move here looks better the time goes by

Spez: "I paid you a small fortune."

Me: "And this gives you power over me?"

"The Barbie Rises", only in theaters July 21st.

Crazy thought but what if they paid third party developers instead by simply not kicking them off

That will make them profitable for sure!

I basically quit Reddit cold turkey. Rather than watch the slow, sad decline of its communities by going along with Reddit management, I'd advocate them to make the transition to the Fediverse now rather than later. The /retrogaming/ community (I need to drop the /r/ for obvious reasons) did this and is doing quite well for itself on Lemmy and Mastodon.

Faking popularity for profit. Ew.

Users must be over 18 years old and reside in the United States

Reddit: the front page of the ~~internet~~ intranet

This is going to be super easy to exploit

"Thus creating the self sustaining economy we've been looking for"

Pay moderators and app developers that help make communities thrive? Hell no. Pay people to contribute content? Yes! That’s the way! Force the community with money. Yes!

I know who will be the top contributor!

Their name is ChatGPT.

Just give me cash for my 16 years of karma so I can fuck off to Lemmy, kthx.

Feels a bit like a slap in the face to the moderators to boot.

I’m definitely not opposed to this from an ideological perspective — you are actively producing content for a platform that’s making money off of it, so surely revenue sharing with you is just the right thing to do.

That said unless the system has extensive human involvement I have no idea how it could possibly work. It seems rife for abuse. And I would bet on it being the first thing cut during cost-cutting (if it was ever implemented at all of which I’m pretty skeptical).

Because if karma bots weren't a problem before..

The Nerd Wars of 2023 are shaping up to be even more action packed than The Great Meme War of 2016!

Remember the Real-Money Auction House in Diablo 3? This seems very much like that...

And I bet it's going to go the way of the RMAH.

“We have already determined what kind of person you are, now we are just establishing the price."

I had nearly 600k post karma on Reddit but I’m never going to post anything there again.

Not trying to brag, just for the sake of this discussion, I had a shit ton of karma and I would get gold awards all the time. I guess Reddit is saving money by me refusing to go back there. That sort of puts me in a bind. Do I keep away from Reddit or do I help bleed them dry?

Just kidding, fuck Reddit. I am totally done with them.