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Desperate or just business as normal? (www.techtimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Thief@lemmy.myserv.one to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Make content, get paid.

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[–] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

How would this even work? How are they going to stop brigading, bots, low effort spam crap for upvotes, massive reposting, etc? How will this actually increase quality of content?

Also: this would mean giving reddit your actual information, right? How else are they going to pay you? Or are they going to try using crypto and nfts?

It sounds like a terrible idea to me, tbh. Maybe they should start with paid moderators to deal with all the extra spam, crossposting, brigading and bots that will result from this move.

[–] gorillakitty@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To ensure the authenticity and security of the program, contributors will need to provide verification information, including their email addresses, personal details, and tax and bank account information.

[–] Izzent@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yikes²

[–] Nolegjoe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already have crypto and NFTs. Take a look at Reddit Moons and the NFT Avatars

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 9 points 1 year ago

I never really cared about them tacking on a bunch of useless shit on top of Reddit. As a third-party-app and old.reddit user I kind of figured that if they monitized that piece and let me hang out in the underbelly then it wasn't really a problem. Why not have the normies subsidize the denizens of the old reddit, it's not like we aren't using adblock anyway.

But now that they've killed off the API it's only a matter of time before the come for old.reddit so I'm out before they get around to it.

[–] Gomiyboy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll be paid in NFT Snoos.

In all seriousness, this leaves the site wide open to exploitation in the pursuit of monetary gain.

Ultimately that will lead to a degredation of content (even more so than now).

[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

paid in NFT Snoos

I smell an exit scam