The new more edgy five-o-clock shadow Reddit.
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I appreciate your commitment to inclusion.
Hatred of reddit is accepted by all
“Fingering supports the contributors you love.”
…so they got rid of awards in favor of adding arrow shaped awards?
“Supports the creators” makes me think they have a revenue split and they got rid of the old system to prevent people from not knowing the difference
Yeah this also conveniently happens after they made everyone’s Reddit Gold invalid. Pretty damn shady if you ask me.
Need influencers if they are going to IPO
Don’t want to lose money by having to split something people bought a year ago
“supports the creators?” like the person who created the comment gets paid? probably not. I’ve made zillions of witty upvoted comments and I haven’t earned a dime. Where does that money go? Into spez’s pockets.
Supposedly you can cash these golds out if you get 10 of them, at a rate of $1 per gold, as long as you live in the US. I figure that the left-most gild is equivalent to 1 gold, so Reddit is keeping roughly 70% of the money you pay through this system.
Oh great. More incentives for bots to run rampant and rehash old posts and comments…
Yes, but do you see the last one!? It is colorful on the outside and golden on the INSIDE
Remember to always tip your celebrities for promoting whatever dumb projects on on your Internet forums, god knows we could use the money.
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THAT WAS SARCASM
Yeah but can we get back to talking about I Don’t Even Remember The Name Oh Wait Rampart
You mean Barbie, right?
Because my movies are the only commercial interests permitted on Lemmy. Look at the banner of this community!
AMAs aren’t just marketing, now they’re money makers themselves!
It’s honestly pretty insulting.
They could hardly make it more explicit that reddit is profiting off content members create.
Is this real?
Yeah:
Giving gold supports the creators you love
I’m not going back to Reddit to find the answer but does any of this money actually go to the creators of the post that gets gold?
If they get at least 10 gold awarded to them within 12 months, and meet the karma/yr threshold, and stay in “good standing” , and aren’t nsfw, and any number of the other thresholds Reddit could use to say no, then they might get ~50% of the price paid to award it. Otherwise Reddit just keeps it all.
Investors be like
So someone has to work at this for a year before getting paid anything when they start out? Am I getting this right?
The 12 month thing isn’t a limit as far as I can tell. More that anything beyond that doesn’t count. So if you ended up meeting all the requirements within a day somehow, it would trigger then.
Oh yeah, that makes way more sense. Thanks
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They don’t get money, they get exposure which is more valuable than money anyway /s in case it wasn’t obvious
Exposure is something people can die from.
Like Paul Smith who lives in Wegstraße 42, 12345 Berlin, Germany. He blocked me but don’t send him death threats because of it.
Support as in the ‘stroke the ego’ sense not ‘help financially put food on the table and heat their home’ sense
I would really like to see lemmy add a ‘direct donation’ button to post and comments that links to their paypal or whatever. I think throwing a dollar or two directly at the person who made the comment or post you really liked is an infinitely better way to support them than throwing that money at a company so that they can award a shiny digital icon above the post.
While I like the sentiment, in reality I think it would do the same thing as it’s doing on Reddit - turn Lemmy into a huge bot farm trying to get money from real users.
This is a great point, I did not think about that. Thanks
Theoretically, yes. Supposedly (If you live in the US) you can cash out $0.90 for every ‘gold’ you receive. In the image, the leftmost golden upvote is worth one ‘gold’, and the rightmost is worth 25. This means that one gold is bought for $2.69, so the post creator can claim 33% of that money back if they are eligible. https://www.reddit.com/contributor-program
No
They do, actually. Eligible creators (basically you have to live in the US, be over 18 and have made at least 100 karma in the last 12 months) can claim 33% of the money spent on the gold.
Please don’t just say “no” to a question without actually doing research. Disliking a platform isn’t a reason to spread misinformation about it.
Holy shit I thought it was fake!
I’m not one for circle jerking but reddit is objectively becoming a shittier platform
I feel like all of them kinda are
Youtube and Discord conveniently added user tags for no reason literally the moment Twitter went down the already pretty deep hole.
Twitch’s favorite pastime is making bank on “unrelated” content
Facebook is just Facebook
Reddit has been constantly losing its appeal every year ever since they moved off the old layout.
Everyone adding/changing things in some meager attempt to drive profits and value without considering effects of user loss because social media is such an oligopoly it doesn’t matter.
Hiroshima has completely given up on ever making 4chan profitable, so it’s still full of porn and casual racism.
When I used to have gold to gild, I would always give it to the stupidest comment, like the most childish shit ever, if you had a poop joke or something, I’d give you gold, most of the time people would join in and gild the dumb comment.
Man if I’d have found this out back then I’d have ranted at you for ruining reddit.
That was before reddit ruined reddit
They’re paying the user this money or this is just for a fancy little icon next to the post like reddit gold used to be?
It’s literally just reddit currency for their shitty premium
Oh, just more bullshit then. Thanks for clarifying.Edit: they do pay out cash for gold, but they keep most of it.
So, i just assume reddit is new onlyfans now
I’m like 60% sure it’ll turn into a porn site after this. But maybe that’s what they’re going for?
Fuck all that Reddit shit
Imagine the person (or more likely a whole group) who has spent weeks designing and iterating over those arrows.
More likely 30 minutes in the evening after playing games all day and working for someone else lol
No way…. Splez is watching
Wait are they charging people for upvoteing
It’s what the old gold used to be. They rebranded it and added a tiny incentive for content creators (like a dollar per gold, regardless of the level of gold, once you reach a certain karma level)
Really it’s just shittier reddit gold and another way reddit is trying to make money off of colorful arrows
Turning Reddit into a career
A repost bot’s dream
This is off topic, but why isn’t there an animated gif of Bugs Bunny saying the “NO”? I mean, we have animated gifs for almost everything else, but I only see this as a static pic. Can no one find the cartoon that this is from and create a gif from it?
It is because the cartoon in which the frame is from he doesn’t actually say no. The frame is taken just after he chugs a whole bottle of “Hare Tonic” https://youtu.be/uuKiqu3g_sE
Okay, that makes sense. Maybe it’s the Mandela Effect, but I swear I remember a cartoon where Bugs says “No” similar to how he’s shown in the still. Maybe not (?).
I’m pretty sure Bugs says no like we’re imagining a few times, but never with a nice crisp close up like this.
Wow, I had no idea this is what it’s from! It took a few minutes for me to get the exact frame, but when I did, it was obvious. Thanks!
What a bunch of scumbags
Musk must have come up with the idea. Wait, there’s no $4.20 option, so maybe not.
Well clicking #69 was a little NSFW
First time I’ve noticed a hashtag as a Lemmy user.
Mine didn’t create a clickable link, did it?
It did not, you’re right.
Kbin & Mastodon only I suppose.
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