Reddit revamps gold system with opportunities to earn real money for posts
Reddit revamps gold system with opportunities to earn real money for posts
Get cash for sharing memes.
Great! Now they want the final stab with content being created by bots. Haha
81ReplyI'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.
33ReplyIt's already happening, spoilers!!!!
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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".
57ReplyHere 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.
27ReplyQuestion 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.
20ReplyAnd it also excludes NSFW or other non-monetized content.
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You should definitely post something for those sweet dollars then.
3Reply"Reddit, what's the sexiest sex you've ever sexed? [Serious]"
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By all means, Trust Reddit to do right by its content creating users.
That is, after all, the reason most of us are here.
51ReplyIsn't this copying Twitter again?
This is a good way to kill any sense of genuine community on your app.
36ReplySpez is a big fan of Musk.
32Replymore like spaz
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Reddit is dead
30ReplyBesides 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.
25ReplyI sort of miss the more 'niche' but non techie / nerdy communities but just find myself reading books again, which is also less stressful.
19ReplyI 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.
3Replyi'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.
2ReplyYeah, 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.
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Desperate
22ReplyWhat could possibly go wrong?
21ReplyMy
botsboys are about to make so much money for me. 13Reply
I wonder how much they'd pay me for my 40k karma...five bucks? Six?
Buncha horseshit
16Reply*1 cent
3ReplyYeah, once you get to a certain amount of karma, you roll over into the cents, eventually going negative and you owe them now!
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I bet this will be as lucrative as twitch streaming.
11ReplySo us leaving did work :)
9ReplyThat's hilarious. Was this the plan all along or was this more of a reactionary thing? I think it's a mix of both.
7ReplyAnother step to push authentic humans to non-corporate platforms ...
4ReplyI hate this so much
4ReplyIs there an app with minimal unobtrusive advertising?
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