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They’re getting desperate to get people back on their site. It’s such a shitshow that they need to bribe users to post.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. I peeked in on Reddit yesterday, the first post was some creep trying to find his step aunt’s Only Fans site. Advertisers are sure to love that.
I think its time bring back all the horrible subs and upvote them to the front page.
/jailbait, /coontown, and all the rest.
I mean, there are still groups that actively brigade the fediverse with AI-generated CSAM. It has actually been a big problem on several instances. And since instances are usually small and only run by a few people, the response can be slow, as all the admins are asleep/not active when it’s happening. It doesn’t get much worse than that.
r/watchpeopledie
r/mmc
What was mmc?
I miss that one.
was it even his step aunts OF, or was it an advertisement of that OF account?
the first post was some creep trying to find his step aunt’s Only Fans site. Advertisers are sure to love that.
Damn did he find the only fans? Thats horrible. What was it so I can avoid it?
It was on only fans.
Only fams.
it’s SO bad – they’re delineating ‘eligible’ content now, which, as of Sept 2023 can’t involve ‘mature themes’, such as NSFW, alcohol, gambling, probably weed.
it’s gonna get as bad as youtube, mark my fucking words. cReaToRs building careers out of posting and losing income because reddit changed a rule or enforced a rule in a shitty dumb way. how long until you can’t swear
sick, sick people
Wake up baby, a new money laundering scheme just launched.
Waiting for the next Spiff video
me and my 100 bots are excited.
Reddit will offer six different purchase options for awarding gold, starting at a $1.99 option to buy one gold and going up to $49 for 25 gold. After you give your gold, you’ll see what Reddit calls a “golden upvote” next to the comment or post.
fuck you
I asked Reddit why it didn’t let people transfer over their coins to spend in the new system. “In the past, there were both paid and free coins that had been distributed, making it incredibly challenging,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt said. “After a lot of consideration, we determined it was better to start from scratch.”
fuck you
Gold can be given to posts and comments, unless they include sexual content, content with graphic violence, or feature certain mature themes (e.g., alcohol, gambling). In addition, gold cannot be awarded on content posted in a Not Safe for Work (NSFW), quarantined, or trauma support community.
fuck you
So Reddit is actually moving away from NSFW, I guess it changed significantly over the last decade with OF ads.
Someone probably figured out that the optics of allowing minors on a site which has a massive onlyfans ad presence (like, most of the NSFW now) miggggghtttt appear as if the site is creating a “high school to porn” pipeline, and that’s going to be a bad look if the media ever takes notice.
Honestly, I’m shocked this hasn’t happened yet. It was creepy enough to have minors on a site which was half porn before most of that porn was legitimately “now that I’m 18 I can finally show you my butthole”
Don’t forget the -military propaganda -alcohol -gambling
ads which CONSTANTLY showed up for me (though I am not interested in any of them). Reddit is really a sick site when you think about it. Targeting the youth with the worst bullshit like the tobacco companies used to do.
Wait, so buying more gold doesn’t even offer you a discount? Isn’t it usually the opposite so the devs or whoever can attract more people to buy pricier stuff?
What do you mean? You get a .75¢ discount per 25. VaLuE!
Bots and Spam for fake internet points,
Now going to throw real money at it?
I didn’t think the bots and spam could get worse, but it will be.
You have earned $5.13 last month, bravo!
You can cash out when you have earned {roundup(earned * 2.0)}
Thank you {username}
Yeah exactly, this is just going to tank the quality even further.
Totally won’t be abused by people reposting gilded comments and posts.
*bots reposting gilded comments and posts in massive quantities
Yes. Adding a financial incentive to saying whatever everyone already wants to hear, is a brilliant idea that will definitely encourage genuine discussion.
(see Elon’s twitter for recent example).
Works for tictoc and instagram. afaik.
Right, both platforms that algorithmically isolate people into echo chambers, only showing people content that offends them in ways that polarises them further, so as to keep them doom-scrolling forever.
My point is that this isn’t conducive with a social platform that unites people and builds consensus, but one that extract’s money at the cost of inflaming divisions even further.
social platform that unites people and builds consensus, but one that extract’s money (…)
I mean, thats the point and to pretend that any social media was ever anything but that is to either be a historical revisionist or delusional.
Reddit may have had a different point when Swartz was around, but anything that takes venture capitol money is eventually beholden to their moral prerogative. And that is the extraction of all possible wealth in the shortest possible timeline, even at the cost of the platform itsself. That final bit is key. and its a bummer that Reddit didn’t go public before all this fucking around, because we could be making good money off their demise.
Wanting the world to be better is not “delusional”.
Identifying something that exacerbates the problems in human society and arguing against it, is not “revisionist”.
Just because humans tend to be tribal, doesn’t mean the only way to benefit from being a facilitator of communication, is to cynically feed that trait.
If anything, that puts you in an even greater position of responsibility to design the system to do good. Give a system all that humanity creates, and you can make it make you feel whatever you want.
That we are choosing “whatever makes me money” again and again does not mean “whatever will make us grow as a species” isn’t also an option.
Pretending that social media was ever meant for anything other than profiting is “revisionist”, and you are being delusional if you think otherwise.}
There might be better ways, sure. But that was never the point. The point was always to make as much money as possible.
And to be clear “we” aren’t “choosing” anything. You aren’t reddit, or twitter, or facebook. You have no agency in this relationship other than to not participate.
Why are you acting as if meaningless defeatist comebacks are somehow successful one-ups?
I’m not pretending to believe anything, I’m fully aware of how current reality works, and has worked. You mistaking my optimism for what might be possible to mean I think that’s how the world does work, is on your antagonistic starting point.
If you think profit is the only reason people set out to run companies, then you’re the one who is delusional.
And any one of us might alone not amount to much, but even this discussion between you and me will sway at least two minds one way or the other. Scale that up a thousand times, and the direction we take as a species is determined by the ideas exchanged between people, exactly as we are doing now, averaged out among us all.
If all you have to say is nihilistic bullshit about how we should just curl up and die because we can’t really ever do enough, then you can fuck off.
If you think profit is the only reason people set out to run companies, then you’re the one who is delusional.
If you take VC money, you play by their rules. Its not nihilistic to be realistic about the context of things.
And I appreciate your optimism, even if I consider it to be delusional. But to me that kind of ‘inactive hope’ is equivalent to what you accused me of doing (‘curl up and die’).
Proceeding through this world on hopes and prayers that a system set up to do anything but exploit and destroy will do anything but that is deeply problematic and contributes significantly to the issues. Its a kind of toxic positivity that gives people the illusion that they are doing something when they aren’t. I don’t have time for that.
Is u/spez still there?
My intentions are to never go back to reddit. I’m never going to consider returning while he’s there.
I stop by and check the place out once in a while. You’re not missing anything. The place has become a dupsterfire filled with bots and spam. I have old comments from years ago getting new comments on them. They’re all bot comments. IDK why they are commenting on old posts, but they’re doing it a lot.
I got a reply to a 9.5 year old comment two days ago…
Nope, you done did shit the bed already you can’t charge admission to the toilet bed now
Now users can make money off all the content they steal and rehost on reddit.
I hope this opens up a can of worms because a lot of people are now going to be making actual money from content they don’t own and have no right to be reposting, rehosting or uploading in the first place.
It’s about time content owners and rights holders finally let reddit feel the long dick of the copyright theft laws the fully deserve.
So Reddit is now a camgirl site, but instead of weird simps paying girls to show their tits it’s weird simps paying other weird simps to… post shit?
This seems like a bad idea.
Its all part of the ensimpification of the internet
I wonder how much money laundering will occur because of this. I can also see any community discussing anything even remotely illegal that one could buy getting banned because of people using this feature to commit crimes and the shit admins overreacting because of it
if you thought bots were a problem before… wait till end of the week!
oh great lets make reposting bullshit even more attractive by letting folks make money along with their internet points
All new scams!
Reddit paid me $400 for my scrap gold! Invest in Reddit gold today! I did and now my colonoscopy appointment was permanently cancelled! Thanks Reddit!
Man they are getting really desperate…
