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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 229 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 years ago

The new more edgy five-o-clock shadow Reddit.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 198 points 2 years ago (3 children)

...so they got rid of awards in favor of adding arrow shaped awards?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

“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

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah this also conveniently happens after they made everyone's Reddit Gold invalid. Pretty damn shady if you ask me.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Need influencers if they are going to IPO

Don’t want to lose money by having to split something people bought a year ago

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"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.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 30 points 2 years ago

The "levels" doesn't even make any sense, a splink of different color?

What a lol.

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[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 194 points 2 years ago (1 children)

🖕🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

"Fingering supports the contributors you love."

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 77 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] AutopilotP@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

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?

[–] ech@lemm.ee 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 33 points 2 years ago

Investors be like

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[–] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They don't get money, they get exposure which is more valuable than money anyway /s in case it wasn't obvious

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exposure is something people can die from.

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Like Paul Smith who lives in Wegstraße 42, 12345 Berlin, Germany. He blocked me but don't send him death threats because of it.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Nusm@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but can we get back to talking about I Don't Even Remember The Name Oh Wait Rampart

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

You mean Barbie, right?

Because my movies are the only commercial interests permitted on Lemmy. Look at the banner of this community!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AMAs aren't just marketing, now they're money makers themselves!

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's honestly pretty insulting.

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[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not one for circle jerking but reddit is objectively becoming a shittier platform

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hiroshima has completely given up on ever making 4chan profitable, so it's still full of porn and casual racism.

[–] fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I used to have gold to gild, I would always give it to the stupidest comment, like the most childish shit ever, if you had a poop joke or something, I'd give you gold, most of the time people would join in and gild the dumb comment.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Man if I'd have found this out back then I'd have ranted at you for ruining reddit.

[–] HerrBeter@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

That was before reddit ruined reddit

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 years ago

Fuck all that Reddit shit

[–] donio@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Imagine the person (or more likely a whole group) who has spent weeks designing and iterating over those arrows.

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[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait are they charging people for upvoteing

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Shareiff@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Turning Reddit into a career

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

A repost bot’s dream

[–] Nusm@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is off topic, but why isn't there an animated gif of Bugs Bunny saying the "NO"? I mean, we have animated gifs for almost everything else, but I only see this as a static pic. Can no one find the cartoon that this is from and create a gif from it?

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 36 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It is because the cartoon in which the frame is from he doesn't actually say no. The frame is taken just after he chugs a whole bottle of "Hare Tonic" https://youtu.be/uuKiqu3g_sE

[–] Nusm@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay, that makes sense. Maybe it's the Mandela Effect, but I swear I remember a cartoon where Bugs says "No" similar to how he's shown in the still. Maybe not (?).

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

What a bunch of scumbags

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 years ago

But I don't love reddit

[–] Enzy@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can't wait for the ability to pay to bump your post to top.

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[–] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Interesting idea, make the users pay to effectively moderate posts in a positive way, this won't have large ramifications with what's on the front page /s.

Reddit heard "mods are unpaid" and found a way to charge them.

[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No $42.0? What a missed opportunity.

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