The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

We all know this is happening with Reddit gold, however I thought it would be relevant to point out that there has been fallout amongst Reddit Premium subscribers.

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Edited a word

  • esty@lemmy.ca
    42·
    1 year ago

    what I take from this, though, is that even with the anger against Reddit, there’s no talk of leaving in the comments on that post!

    you hate the site and all of their changes so much and it’s only been getting worse… why do you stay? even the content is already worse, and even worse on the subs that have the new Reddit tipping system… why stay?

    #reddit #lemmy #fediverse #kbin

    • Izzgo@kbin.social
      15·
      1 year ago

      the new Reddit tipping system

      I haven’t heard about this tipping system. ELI5?

        • Madison_rogue@kbin.socialOP
          15·
          1 year ago

          Put anything to a vote
          Run weighted polls to make big decisions in your community, like getting input on rules changes or deciding how to distribute Points.

          Unlike regular polls, these polls give a larger voice to people who have contributed more to the community. The more Community Points someone has earned, the more weight their vote carries.

          This will end well…

          EDIT

          What they’re really looking for are a bunch of whales to drive engagement.

          • ode@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Call me a cynic but I suspect the biggest ‘contributor’ to r/product will end up being product’s marketing department account, likewise with r/country and party-political apparatchiks. The move is elegant in a way: Reddit Inc can ruin true democratic operation of subs by turning subscribers into shareholders (which wards off repeats of mod activism) and simultaneously provide further cover to astroturfers (lots of points = Time and Effort™ = good faith actor).

            • Madison_rogue@kbin.socialOP
              5·
              1 year ago

              Oh, absolutely this is the case. Reddit could even run bot accounts to gain a lion’s share of points for any particular sub they want to control, thereby stifling any sort of protest or activism authorized by sub vote.

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
          7·
          1 year ago

          Ironically you’d need something like a cryptocurrency if you wanted to implement something like that for the Fediverse.

            • FaceDeer@kbin.social
              3·
              1 year ago

              Generally speaking the solution to these sorts of things when one doesn’t want it is “then don’t use it.” That’s especially true in a federated, decentralized system like this.

              • esty@lemmy.ca
                2·
                1 year ago

                yeah but this is the specific kind of engagement bait and whatnot that can stay on the corpo social nets

          • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
            1·
            1 year ago

            Why? I mean, technologically, why couldn’t a more standard payment platform work, and then just pass around those payments among instances? PayPal is not crypto, but you can use it almost anywhere online.

            • FaceDeer@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              PayPal is not decentralized. None of the “more standard” payment platforms are. If you want to have some kind of cross-instance limitation on things like awards and not have instances be able to just spew them out willy-nilly if they want to then you’re going to need some kind of decentralized ledger to track them authoritatively, and that’s basically cryptocurrency in a nutshell. This is what cryptocurrency is for.

        • soundasleep@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yeah it’s been enabled on the crypto reddits for a while… as a result the subs overwhelmingly changed to “vaguely interesting and/or attention-grabbing but ultimately useless with a race to see who’s first” posts, signal-to-noise ratio got way worse.

        • nevernevermore@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          the snoos having hair is the real crime against humanity here. who the fuck asked for snoo to be memoji’s? what is going on over there?!

    • Madison_rogue@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      The article comments are linked to Reddit, if you click on “Replies” it routes you to the topic on Reddit where there are posts about leaving the platform.

    • megane-kun@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve got enough reason to believe that any mentions of Lemmy, are met with shadow banning.

      And like the master of gaslighting that it is, it doesn’t happen all the time, but often enough to deliver a chilling effect.

      They want the dissenters to leave without a word.

  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
    18·
    1 year ago

    Wow, Reddit is not joking around when it comes speedrunning enshittification. I think it’s going to be very tough for other platforms to match these moves.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
    7·
    1 year ago

    It’s the equivalent of a crack dealer at this point.

    At first they got people hooked with cheap drugs that worked and got you an easy high.

    But now you need more and the dealer knows you’re desperate … so they increase the price, give you a cheaper product and string you along because they know no matter what they do, you’ll keep coming back for more.

    They’ll start whoring you around and selling your body like trash and you won’t like it but if it means getting your next fix, you’ll do anything.

    • nevernevermore@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Just out of curiosity, what is it that you were subscribing for? I used r*ddit for 13 years and never saw the need to pay for premium or gold or whatever. What features did it offer?

  • Buelldozer@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Ad Revenue. Someone paying for Reddit Premium gets an ad free experience which is fine but someone who gets gifted Gold also gets an ad free experience. They need as many people as possible to see ads so free loaders have to go…which means so do the coins.

    I fully expect that within a year Reddit will start doing what many streaming services are where the lowest tier is free but ad supported, then there’s a paid “limited ad” tier, followed by an even more expensive “No Ads” tier. The current Reddit Premium program will transition to that mid-tier category and they’ll add “Reddit Ultimate” or some BS as the new Ad Free option. It’ll probably cost $10 a month too.

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I can see why they’d want to streamline the award system, since it is a bit messy, but they’re getting rid of something that made Reddit unique and that people seemed to like, for…what, exactly?