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[Social Media]: THREAT OR MENACE? ¿Por que no los dos?
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Twitter Continues To Have A Twitter Problem: Opened October 2017, Closed July 2020
Social Media: The Intersection Of Money, Policy, And Hate: Opened July 2020, Closed February 2022
Social Media: Our Blasted Digital Hellscape: Opened February 2022, Closed November 6th, 2022
The Fall Of The House Of Social Media: Opened November 6th, 2022, Closed December 7th, 2022
It has been a Long year The Last Month in Social Media: Opened December 2022, Devolved into talking about hops.
A thread plugged straight into [Social Media]'s Brain, It's filled with musk: Opened April 2023, In the process of being taken over by @Commander Zoom and crypto currency.
We gots X'es, we got Threads, we gots Fediverses that you can federate in (No need to ask @Echo, just pick one, any of 'em. If your neighbour is a nazi, quickly leave) and Reddit is now going to offer virtual ownership of their subreddits, maybe? Can you spend Red-Bucks to make yourself a moderator of /r/askmeanything? Who knows?
Social Media: The Intersection Of Money, Policy, And Hate: Opened July 2020, Closed February 2022
Social Media: Our Blasted Digital Hellscape: Opened February 2022, Closed November 6th, 2022
The Fall Of The House Of Social Media: Opened November 6th, 2022, Closed December 7th, 2022
It has been a Long year The Last Month in Social Media: Opened December 2022, Devolved into talking about hops.
A thread plugged straight into [Social Media]'s Brain, It's filled with musk: Opened April 2023, In the process of being taken over by @Commander Zoom and crypto currency.
We gots X'es, we got Threads, we gots Fediverses that you can federate in (No need to ask @Echo, just pick one, any of 'em. If your neighbour is a nazi, quickly leave) and Reddit is now going to offer virtual ownership of their subreddits, maybe? Can you spend Red-Bucks to make yourself a moderator of /r/askmeanything? Who knows?
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Wait.. I missed that part of crypto... Is Horny coin now a thing? Does OnlyFans "do" crypto?
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Welp.
Oh, it gets even better if you read the FAQ section
Users need to be able to break free of app control! Also, we can ban you and keep your money, and we're the only game in town.
There's also a few sneaky things embedded in the whole deal:
- From now on, you can only post images if you have a "special membership" on a sub-reddit
- This is separate from Reddit Gold, and is only for that specific subreddit.
- Special memberships costs either Reddit coins (1000 of them), OR $5.00 a month.
- A lot of adult operated sub-reddits only work because of the images (I guess this is a golden time for adult fan-fiction, no special membership needed!)
Coins are distributed like this:
10% split between all the moderators
50% split between all the "contributors," weighted on karma
40% the "community" can decide on "community rules" (votes weighted by how many coins you have) where the "crypto rich" can award themselves more, I guess.
Also, as an extra sneaky:
- You can only use/gain/spend reddit coins via their mobile app, if you don't use the official app, you can't ever redeem these magic crypto coins.
So.. they just want you to spend $5 per sub-reddit per month now, and exclusively use their mobile app to interact with reddit.... both a big ask, I might be done with reddit.
That's...not how vaults are supposed to work, they're not even crypto-ing right!
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Subscription-gating image posts is certainly a ... bold strategy. Wow.
I love the points distribution too. No way that wasn't intended to kneecap mods after the last couple of months.
I really wish our damn government would put it's foot down and start treating cyrpto bullshit like the scam that it is. Anyways, the platform is as good as dead now though. Shame the piece of shit running won't see any real consequences because he probably has some sweetheart deal where he either continues to rack in shit tons of money, despite actively burning the company down or get's paid a huge ass ransom to fuck off somewhere.
That's the thing, they're not.
Anyway this seems like they're trying to earn bank off of all of the porn subreddits but I think it's just going to kill a lot of them dead, and people will find somewhere else to go for it.
Like this is such a monumentally asinine idea. It will not work, will cost them money, and earn them nothing. Fire this jackass already, goddamn.
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I think I misread the following line:
on their explanation of what special memberships do
Mostly because in my head the first post of a thread is the same thing as all the others, forgetting that Reddit separates them out between "posts" and "comments"
So, yeah, posts will retain their current capabilities, I take it.
It's just that for $5 a month, you can post an obnoxious meme as a reply.
Mae Culpa, I would post a meme of puss-in-boots being sorry, but here the rules are "if you post a reaction meme, it better be a damn good one" and I don't feel like that much effort.
It will be like Twitter all over again
Unless you have invested in the community you will be limited to 3 posts per subreddit per day. You can't post images. You can only crosspost to subreddits that you are also invested in
They're already going to be weighting polls based on the number of points you have, so weighting updoots can't be far behind. Comment threads with crypto bros being pushed to the top may be the future
Even though Karma is mostly worthless, it's already being farmed incessantly by bots trying to get on the front-page with reposts.
Now Imagine it actually being worth something....
Yeah, it's going to be crypto-bro bots all the way down unless they really clamp down on it. Good thing they have robust Moderation tools and a good rapport with the volunteer moderators 🤡
Not even CNN is pretending to take Yaccarino seriously
I'm vaguely aware that there is grift in Reddit Coin schemes but... what is it used for? It would be like farming Awesomes on these forums as far as I can tell.
Wait, I thought awesomes were backed by like Tubecoin or something. Have I been wasting my time?
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Curses, we've been rumbled!
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Wait, what profit?
That's the genius of it, the negative profit gets spread around to the users. Enjoy your new 1 billion dollar debt, blue check marks.
So wait are we going to start calling them #fashtags now?
For real. 50% payout of the planet killing fake internet money based on karma? The site already has massive issues with bot's stealing content and SEO'ing fake stories to drive upvotes. A bunch of the content on the main page these days is either the same recycled shit that gets reposted every 6 months, or fake drama posts. I've noticed even the better run, non-main page subs have lost a bunch of engagement. All this kind of thing is going to do is drive more facebook level garbage made for simpletons and pre-teens.
It seems pretty clear Reddit leadership is just desperately trying to get paid before they rug pull the whole thing and abandon it to grifters.
Are those the new Apple vr headsets?
X Premium is definitely the name of about three twitter accounts that I... I mean a friend who is not me follows.
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