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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

My decision to move here looks better the time goes by

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy thought but what if they paid third party developers instead by simply not kicking them off

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Spez: "I paid you a small fortune."

Me: "And this gives you power over me?"

"The Barbie Rises", only in theaters July 21st.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

That will make them profitable for sure!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I basically quit Reddit cold turkey. Rather than watch the slow, sad decline of its communities by going along with Reddit management, I'd advocate them to make the transition to the Fediverse now rather than later. The /retrogaming/ community (I need to drop the /r/ for obvious reasons) did this and is doing quite well for itself on Lemmy and Mastodon.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Faking popularity for profit. Ew.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Users must be over 18 years old and reside in the United States

Reddit: the front page of the ~~internet~~ intranet

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is going to be super easy to exploit

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[–] hobwell 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Feels a bit like a slap in the face to the moderators to boot.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/YAKOWcs8w54

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I know who will be the top contributor!

Their name is ChatGPT.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pay moderators and app developers that help make communities thrive? Hell no. Pay people to contribute content? Yes! That’s the way! Force the community with money. Yes!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so broke they have to kill api-use yet rich enough to throw money at a problem they created

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Just give me cash for my 16 years of karma so I can fuck off to Lemmy, kthx.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The Nerd Wars of 2023 are shaping up to be even more action packed than The Great Meme War of 2016!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Because if karma bots weren't a problem before..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I’m definitely not opposed to this from an ideological perspective — you are actively producing content for a platform that’s making money off of it, so surely revenue sharing with you is just the right thing to do.

That said unless the system has extensive human involvement I have no idea how it could possibly work. It seems rife for abuse. And I would bet on it being the first thing cut during cost-cutting (if it was ever implemented at all of which I’m pretty skeptical).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Remember the Real-Money Auction House in Diablo 3? This seems very much like that...

And I bet it's going to go the way of the RMAH.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They’ve really fucked that place.

Such a shame.

Anyway…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They just got done complaining about third-party apps making money while they’re not. Now they want to pay people to post and interact? Smelling very desperate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“We have already determined what kind of person you are, now we are just establishing the price."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I had nearly 600k post karma on Reddit but I’m never going to post anything there again.

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