Is this actually real?
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“Fingering supports the contributors you love.”
I appreciate your commitment to inclusion.
Hatred of reddit is accepted by all
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.
Hiroshima has completely given up on ever making 4chan profitable, so it’s still full of unfiltered organic discussion, porn. funny shitposting and couple of unobtrusive banner ads.
As low-brow as it can get, 4chan is still part of the solution, unlike plebbit.
Reddit really has become everything that Reddit used to hate.
Can’t wait for the ability to pay to bump your post to top.
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
…so they got rid of awards in favor of adding arrow shaped awards?
The “levels” doesn’t even make any sense, a splink of different color?
What a lol.
Yes, but do you see the last one!? It is colorful on the outside and golden on the INSIDE
“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…
Maybe its time to start botting on reddit
Is this real?
Yeah:
Holy shit I thought it was fake!
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.
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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Investors be like
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.
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
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
Creators on reddit?
Wait, that explains soo much of their terrible UI changes ocer the years!
On old reddit, usernames, while displayed, are in reality semi hidden, it uses tiny text that blends in the rest of the text.
This is terrible for creators, their name is their brand, and if they don’t get exposure of it on their content, they will leave.
This is why new reddit made usernames slightly more prominent, and also started pushing avatars, they want more big creators, that they expect will bring in their audience, an audience that is trained to want to support their creator.
This is turning reddit from a vibrant community to a generic social media site, a checkbox for what a creator is expected to have…
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.
I’m still using Boost for Reddit, so I doubt this is coming to me
Love the desperate grab for revenue prior to IPO.
Too bad the ransomware is getting leaked as soon as they announce the IPO date.
Spez, you done played yourself.
Go on…
“prior to ipo” for the last four(teen) years
No $42.0? What a missed opportunity.
The new more edgy five-o-clock shadow Reddit.
Remember to always tip your celebrities for promoting whatever dumb projects on on your Internet forums, god knows we could use the money.
spoiler
THAT WAS SARCASM
AMAs aren’t just marketing, now they’re money makers themselves!
It’s honestly pretty insulting.
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!
Isn’t it better a direct donation?
i just saw that pop up, lol wtf
Le 420xXx69 connoisseurs
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.
Musk must have come up with the idea. Wait, there’s no $4.20 option, so maybe not.
