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atrielienz ,

That’s desperate.

Chailles ,
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I’ll be honest. I do miss Reddit. I often think about going back to it. Reading this though, it reinvigorates my belief, I made the right choice and I’m never going back.

Ktheone ,

Absolutely NOONE could’ve predicted this /s

merthyr1831 ,

They’re just copying Elon. To that end, the already clickbait-filled front page is gonna get worse and engagement farming is going to become as rife as ever.

It’s a desperate and cynical attempt to claw back users who appear to have left en masse after the API changes. Reddit is noticeably less active in smaller subs since July. And the larger subs have more or less consolidated themselves to a few power users.

MystikIncarnate ,

Great, now they’ve turned karma whoring into a profitable enterprise. This will surely go well.

geophysicist ,

So a user issue 2.50 to buy a gold, then the receiver can cash out 1.00. So Reddit aims to make 1.50 for every gold awarded

Absolute scam

wishthane ,

They just saw that video on Roblox and said “yeah that sounds great, let’s do that”

serratur ,

Time to set up that AI chatbot for passive income

Syndic ,

Well to be fair, before this they got all of the money for a tiny picture. So in that light they scam a bit less now.

But of course this still is a stupid idea which will decrease whatever remaining quality Reddit has even more.

Treczoks ,

Wow. They have become that desperate?

luckystarr ,

New money laundering scheme?

merthyr1831 ,

ROI is likely lower than Steam market trading but could be an easy way to diversify your portfolio

cesium ,

This guy launders money.

firadin ,

Reddit admins note: "you’ll receive a new shiny badge on your profile indicating you’re in the program and can earn cash! "

Hoping that reddit mods have the balls to auto-delete all posts from users who are approved for the monetization system. Knowing that they won’t, I’m waiting for the Firefox extension and Revanced patch that auto-censor posts by those users.

Of course reddit will quickly remove that visibility.

Zoomboingding ,
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Communities do have good contributors that make good content. Speaking to Pokemon GO, announcements are often wordy and lack key information (which pokemon can be shiny, for example). It’s up to the community to post helpful infographics when events start to give a concise and accurate overview. In many instances, blocking top contributors will also block the best content.

Totally different story when talking about big, general topic subs like memes, news, etc. But why would you even browse those in the first place?

Kirkkh ,

Bot apocalypse incoming

ours ,

I can already imagine the YouTube grifter videos: “Make XXXX$ per day on Reddit with AI with only 10 minutes of work!”.

I_LOVE_VEKOMA_SLC ,

“passive income”

ours ,

More like “massive con” I’maright? badum tss

ohlaph ,

Yes, yes, and so the thirst continues…

tryharder ,

It blows my mind that this is both spez and Elmo’s best idea for what to do with their respective hellsites: what if we made a shittier Quora? Because Quora’s such an enviable business, right guys? Quora’s right up there with Apple and Microsoft!

The Metaverse pivot by Zuck was only marginally less stupid. This is why HBO had to cancel Silicon Valley, the show: you can’t parody Sillycon Valley anymore. ByteDance and WeChat are going to devour these clowns alive, now that the money printer stopped going brrr. They never had any plan to ever be profitable. Their business model was just to continue scamming investors with fake users and keep raising more billions, like the Pied Piper bot users. These are zombie companies, propped up by negative real interest rates for a decade. Let them die already.

stevehobbes ,

lol WeChat who has a defacto government granted monopoly in exchange for all customer data being given to the government is going to drive the innovation?

cesium ,

You had me until the WeChat/ByteDance part.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I wonder if they’re all retarded. Like, what do they think is going to happen, there will suddenly be a bunch of totally not Chinese gold farmers posting content?

They may be the stupidest motherfuckers in existentiality.

tryharder ,

Just look at Quora, you have your target nationality wrong. It’ll be flooded by Indian gold farmers. The vast majority of Chinese people don’t speak English. China has a parallel, disjoint internet to ours. India has the second-largest English speaking population in the world, due to British imperialism, and no Great Firewall.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Please do the needful.

emptiestplace ,

Yes I have done it sir.

Send_me_nude_girls ,

Excited Chinese sounds

HaggierRapscallier ,

Indian*

cheery_coffee ,
  1. Make two accounts
  2. Pay gold to your second account
  3. Super upvote for 10¢

This will definitely not get used to boost shit spammy content. Nope. Not a chance.

It’s 90% cheaper than organic content.

dan , (edited )

One gold upvote costs $2, the recipient might get either $0.90 or perhaps $1. But most likely they’ll get nothing.

cheery_coffee ,

Oh woops, I misread that.

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