Has there been any indication that reddit may pay creators and moderators, like youtube and meta and other platforms do? or are they just expecting to pocket all the cash?
reddit hasnt found a way to make profit without paying people who run their site for free, there is zero chance they start now.
Can we PLEASE post these types of posts to a Reddit-centric community? This has absolutely nothing to do with lemmy.world.
Anyone who still works for free for reddit, has some self worth issues. Bein a volunteer in a non profit is one thing, volunteering for a corporation trying to squeeze last penny from user generated content while actively shitting on users, is a strange thing to do in my book. Moderators should just all quit.
Anyone else here entertained that this is a meme from a movie where they decided to stop paying someone to send the message that they were fired?
Imagine getting paid to post soyjak memes on Reddit lmao
The model works when you have high effort content (YT, Insta, TikTok, Yelp). The bar to get started is high, so the idea of a payout gets the ball rolling for some people. Contributing to Reddit (and Lemmy for that matter) probably doesn’t fit that bill.
To be honest most of the content on Tiktok and Youtube is fucking awful. But advertisers will pay a lot more for unskippable video ads than they will to Reddit.
You want to have 3 15-seconds long uninterruptable ads when you click on a post? I don’t think one can compare the content quality of a youtube video with a single post and they’ll never generate the revenue that youtube does. You already can get moons on reddit in one or some subs, but that only led to a lot of bullshit posts, so i don’t think that is the right incentive and you wouldn’t like the outcome. They should pay moderators though, but since there are so many that enjoy doing it for free, that probably won’t happen either, only maybe if they dig themselves deeper into the current mess where every moderator flees the site.
Reddit moderators do not get paid and afaik there’s no plan to pay moderators.
source: am a reddit moderator
Oh you’re a reddit mod? Name every subreddit (please don’t)
lol. in actuality I mod some smaller subs like /r/timetravel, /r/paneldepon, and /r/girlgames.
r/timetravel is a great sub, lots of mind bending discussions. It kinda reminds me of what r/conspiracy used to be like before they traveled back in time.
Why would they??
because it seems to be an effective and sustainable model.
In what universe is paying people for something they are willing to do for a free a sustainable business model?
The meta and YouTube universe.
Youtube has advertisers on individual videos which requires more moderation than endless text posts.
Or to put it another way; video advertisers ask for a lot more than just crappy spam reddit post ads.
That’s probably why YouTube has such a hair trigger on demonetizing, removing, and copyright striking videos.
Yes, and also video/audio content is much more ripe for copyright claims than image/text content, since it’s all owned by giant corporations. For example the music version of all the art bots now was only trained on royalty free/copyright free music… I wonder why.
