• metalingus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Was there any indication something like this was coming?

    Also, I only learned last 1-2 months during the API fiasco that Reddit had some weird NFT thing going on… Are they just trying to find anything that will stick?

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      1 year ago

      It’s rumored that Reddit is about to launch a new “creator program” that will pay Redditors for high-karma activity on the site. This change is probably meant to accommodate this new feature.

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        1 year ago

        how is paying people going to “keep them profit oriented til profits arrive”?

        how could they even have the cashflow to support that? money isn’t free anymore

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          how could they even have the cashflow to support that?

          I’m guessing new deals with advertisers. These changes will incentivize more neutral, advertiser-friendly comments on their platform. I imagine that’s going to make them more lucrative to advertisers going forward, so that their ads are shown next to harmless memes instead of bad-faith political arguments in cat pic subreddits.