Desperate or just business as normal?
Desperate or just business as normal?
The Reddit app is potentially introducing a Contributor program, allowing users to earn real money for their contributions, creating a self-sustaining ecosystem within the community.
Make content, get paid.
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Imagine an environment where users are getting paid for gold award content and the moderators are still unpaid for all the work they do behind the scenes.
With bot detection going away, I can see programmers making several bots to manipulate this to make money, and lots of it, through many accounts.
Meanwhile, yikes, they are totally forgetting the real users. I’m a few months, there will be at least a 50% chance that comment or post you are replying to is a bot.
I’m a few months, there will be at least a 50% chance that comment or post you are replying to is a bot.
It already feels this way. A lot of them are the most basic comments or don't make any sense at all.
Part of why I liked the Apollo app was that it could show account ages. There'd be a post from a 23-day-old account, and a heavily-upvoted thread with witty comments from a 24-day-old account, replied to by a 22-day-old account, replied to by a 27-day-old account.
It really sucks because I'm working on stuff I'd love to share with people, but sharing content on reddit would feel dirty. I haven't done anything but lurk the stable diffusion subreddit using Brave in over a month.
Could also have been old-timers that have had accounts repeatedly banned by admins for bullshit reasons. But yeah more likely just bots lol.
Or it'll end up going the same way as Quora. People just churn out answers for money, irrespective of whether they're helpful or all that relevant at all.
Contributors should be rewarded. What kind of contributions though? Video? Isn't that Youtube? Articles? Ok. I mean, if they are really good articles that really give insight into important information, great!. Art? Sure. They deserve it. This is the thing. Once it becomes "commercial". Then the forums will become safespaces. The whole thing becomes just a giant market and I can see reddit "demonetizing" depending on the content. That will turn reddit into something entirely different to Lemmy. And you know what? That's alright. The internet is big enough where reddit can coexist with the fediverse. But this is actually a good thing. Because then, lemmy and systems like this can become community oriented. A platform where people can discuss without concerns of what a corporation will or won't do. A place where the value lies on our contributions as a community in the very same way reddit was in its beginnings.
Reddit becoming a source of income for contributors shouldn't be a bad thing. It simply turns it into something entirely different to what we saw back in the early 2000s