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So more reposts, generic jokes as top comment and click baites, because now everybody will try to make a quick buck?
This was a rumour some years back and I just remember after that I started noticing a bunch of repost bots. They even copy paste the top comment just to double dip that sweet karma sauce
I have to say, I wasn’t expecting to see an ad for “please use Reddit, we’ll pay you!” on lemmy
In this context it feels less like an ad, and more like “hey look how desperate they’re getting”.
I was just thinking they might go this way to prove that karma is worth something. The quality of content will absolutely take a dive if they ever do.
“Work for us and sometimes we will pay you!”
Fuck you Spez, we ain’t going back. Beside, I’m getting used to this new federation thing. I use Kbin and it’s wonderful. Just waiting on a real mobile App and my scrolling addiction will be satisfied
IDK about Kbin, but Lemmy is pretty solid just using a mobile web browser. I suspect Kbin might be too though, have you tried it?
Lemmy is better on web than kbin.
But kbin lets you block entire instances as a user, which is worth the tradeoff for me.
There was a couple instances I just didn’t want to see and blocking them by community was like whack a mole
But kbin lets you block entire instances as a user, which is worth the tradeoff for me.
Let’s you block domains as a user. It doesn’t block the entire instance, some posts do and will still come through (as I’ve found over the weeks lol). They’ve said on the github that a feature is incoming to outright block instances, if I read correctly.
Edit: Sorry, codebase, not github: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/118#issuecomment-942720 ernests last comment.
Too little, too late.
As a content creator who posted to Reddit since it began, the API blackout did more than drive me away from Reddit - it led me to discover the Fediverse. And it’s just so… much… better. No concerns about power tripping mods, endless pun threads, shadowbanning or obtuse rules. You interact with real people interested in what you post, not just bots and karma whores - even in the most popular threads. If a community turns sour, you just block them, and then follow the same themed community on another instance.
Reddit relied the thrill of contributing to a large audience to drive the desire to participate. This worked as long as it was the only and best game in town. Now they’ve broken that thrill by making it clear that any community that doesn’t contribute to Spez’s wallet isn’t welcome on Reddit. If this program had been in place, it might have blunted the exodus of content creators from Reddit, but trying to implement it now smacks of desperation.
Besides, Reddit isn’t profitable when their mods and contributors work for free. Expecting a power-tripping broke motherfucker to possibly pay me in the future for work I previously did for free for them is like expecting the rapture - it’s a nice thought in theory, but even if it does happen, you’re probably not gonna like how it turns out.
I don’t think this is aimed at winning us over. It’s really just them doubling down on the type of users they want to see going forward (and it’s not us).
Remember Quora when they started rewarding for questions asked instead of correct answers?
First Twitter and now Quora, Reddit is learning from best out there.
great, doubling down on the broken karma system.
This is hilarious haha. Create a whole new FOMO for people to post whatever they think will make money, not what they necessarily want to post.
Yes, this.
It’ll be just like YouTube, where people are huddled on the floor praying to “the algorithm” with each bit of “content” they post, hoping to make it big as a “professional Redditor”.
I can’t wait to see the per-user algorithmic feeds. One post from r/conspiracy or r/conservative scrolls past your screen, and suddenly it’s all you see.
Tell me you’re desperate without telling me you’re desperate
Reddit getting desperate?
Damn, I didn’t expect leaving reddit will pay off so quickly.
