• defunct_punk
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    323 months ago

    This is actually really good to hear because I have a bridge I’ve been trying to sell so having a whole community that I know is full of the most gullible people on the internet will really speed up the process

  • @JimRaynor@lemm.ee
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    It is why I am here, the straw that broke the camels back. So at my wits end with it. From killing third party apps, forced ads jammed inbetween every post/comment, declining communities, autobans on nonsense, a UI that forces misclicks into awards instead of upvoting, and this paywall is only a signal of worse to come as they monetize content that is not even their own!

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      13 months ago

      they started banning aggressively, and not really giving people a chance at thier appeals, thats what drove alot of people to lemmy, and to other forums. im also in a forum “about ban evasion”, actually more or less for people like the acc trying to make money off OF or advertisements.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      63 months ago

      probably thats why reddit has banned OF accs en masse recently, they couldnt get money from thier OF promotions. im betting with the paid system, they will allow some form of approved botting for those channels in the form advertisements.

      • @schema@lemmy.world
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        OF creators have to go through a rigorous process to verify themselves. I can’t imagine reddit doing anything close to that, but I might be wrong. If not, it will be a playground for scammers and stolen content.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      the addicted powermods will fall in line, i bet and hide some of thier larger subs behind a paywall as premium content. i see the political subs doing this r./politics, r/news, r/conservatives these only 3 i know are the top subs especially since they are spammed on the front page.

    • @Lootboblin@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      Andrew Tate’s ”Hustler’s University” has 200k subscribers. Sadly this world has so many stupid people throwing their money to stupid things.

  • @ef9357@lemmy.world
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    53 months ago

    Since Reddit is only a platform and the users provide the content (well mostly bots and reposts now), does that mean Reddit will pay users for their content? Personally, I wouldn’t pay one cent to read posts.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      13 months ago

      nah, they just give some more power to the 92 powermods, the ones that own 500 subs, to control the content, and probably gatekeep which subs will be paywalled.

  • @Voyajer@lemmy.world
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    43 months ago

    Haven’t paid subreddits been a thing for a decade? /r/lounge being the main one, but anyone could make a subreddit and require gold to view iirc.

    • Like the wind...
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      103 months ago

      What even was the point of lounge? I’ve been gifted gold and platinum several times and never really cared about posting there.

      Also unrelated but this reminds me of one time somebody faked dying of cancer to get gold. Like “I only have a month to live and I’ve never got gold” lmao

      • @Voyajer@lemmy.world
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        I’ve been gifted gold twice and I never understood the appeal of it either, everything in there was self-referential both times I checked.

        • @Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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          I used to consider it a way to highlight a comment that I thought others should see. I have no idea if it holds the same power now, since gold, platinum, and a million other little “award badges” are now available. Yet once upon a time, seeing a gold icon next to a comment seemed to draw people’s attention. If a comment got gilded early, you’d see a huge difference in upvotes and replies for that particular comment.

    • @JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
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      23 months ago

      There are quite a few subreddits that require vast amounts of karma points (like 12,000) to reply, and there are heaps that require high karma points to post, meaning you have to effectively buy them.

  • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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    23 months ago

    OPEN AI and GOOGLE has been in cahoots with reddit, made sense since google allows reddit to use its CAPTCHA V3 system.

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        13 months ago

        yes, im betting in return reddit gets to use google and open AI, to do ban moderation(hence the ban with no reason why you ban)