So more reposts, generic jokes as top comment and click baites, because now everybody will try to make a quick buck?

I have to say, I wasn’t expecting to see an ad for “please use Reddit, we’ll pay you!” on lemmy

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

great, doubling down on the broken karma system.

"Work for us and sometimes we will pay you!"

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.

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.

Reddit getting desperate?

Tell me you're desperate without telling me you're desperate

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 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.

Does this mean you can actually deny people money by downvoting? Well that can only go well!

Damn, I didn't expect leaving reddit will pay off so quickly.

Users must be over 18 years old and reside in the United States. Additionally, contributions must adhere to the "Safe for Work" guidelines set by Reddit.

No further comments, your honor.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was done through cryptocurrency like Reddit's done before.

A few years ago Reddit started to give community specific cryptocurrencies depending on how much karma the user got. I think it was only launched on the Fortnite and Cryptocurrency subreddits, and I'd say giving cryptocurrency to a community of mostly young Fortnite fans seems immoral, but not surprising for Reddit.

Quora tried something like this and it absolutely destroyed the site. I was on there when basically all content was unpaid, and I think it mostly worked pretty well and you could get some high quality answers. After they went paid (the Quora partner program, I think it was called), it basically turned into Yahoo! Answers both in question and answer quality. Every time I've visited Quora since, it kinda has the same effect as looking at those pictures of people as they use meth for longer and longer; the site just keeps getting more and more unusable in both interface and content.

But I'm sure it'll work out just fine for Reddit

So it's basically a job that instead of getting paid YOU have to pay the employer to work each month but they may pay you instead some months?

... letting top contributors earn real-world money that they can spend on exclusive badges & exchange it for one week of FREE trial of amazing Reddit premium gold app

Funny, I was thinking of selling my reddit accounts to spammers the other day.

If people really want to keep reddit protests going how about developing an open source repost bot which embeds your own adverts into the top comments.

Start taking control of how the "content creators" are rewarded.

The karma store has been a long-running joke on reddit. And much like reddit silver, it looks like, for some reason, they're taking the jokes and thinking they're good ideas.