Reddit could be working on a Contributor program, letting top contributors earn real-world money from the gold and karma they receive.
Reddit could be working on a Contributor program, letting top contributors earn real-world money from the gold and karma they receive.
Pretty sure that’s exactly what they want. Those are way more neutral/marketable qualities to advertisers than “Sometimes your ad will be shown next to a 10-page, expletive-ridden tirade about poop-knives, and no, they won’t explain what it is”.
In the short term, yes. And in the context of them trying for an IPO, that’s probably what they want. But it absolutely will kill the site in the end because no one actually wants to hang out in an ad riddled wasteland.
I’m still on Facebook because of that’s how I keep up with friends I no longer live near, but you know what Facebook has been loath to show me recently? Posts from my friends. Easily 75% of my feed is sponsored or “recommended” content. If they’re not going to show me the one and only thing I come to the site to see, I might as well not come to the site.
And unfortunately half the shit from my friends are shit reposts.
Same here … but the thing is … I have the app but never look at it … the only time I need it is to look up a specific post that a family or friend told me about and wants me to see … I only turn on messenger to contact someone.
I have Facebook but all notifications are turned off and I only look at it when I need to not when some dumb alert comes on.
Once in a while I’ll scroll through the app and wonder why anyone would want to look at all this junk … and it’s scary to realize that it is literally an infinite scroll of stupidity.
And yes I know that keeping the app is actively tracking my life in other ways but I’ll take that risk to keep in touch with my family … it’s weird, almost everyone I know is online in some form now and they seldom use regular text or phone calls any more.