• Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      It’s what the old gold used to be. They rebranded it and added a tiny incentive for content creators (like a dollar per gold, regardless of the level of gold, once you reach a certain karma level)

      Really it’s just shittier reddit gold and another way reddit is trying to make money off of colorful arrows

  • NewPerspective@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Interesting idea, make the users pay to effectively moderate posts in a positive way, this won’t have large ramifications with what’s on the front page /s.

    Reddit heard “mods are unpaid” and found a way to charge them.

  • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    25·
    1 year ago

    Love the desperate grab for revenue prior to IPO.

    Too bad the ransomware is getting leaked as soon as they announce the IPO date.

    Spez, you done played yourself.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    632·
    1 year ago

    Remember to always tip your celebrities for promoting whatever dumb projects on on your Internet forums, god knows we could use the money.

    spoiler

    THAT WAS SARCASM

      • mommykink@lemmy.world
        57·
        1 year ago

        Giving gold supports the creators you love

        I’m not going back to Reddit to find the answer but does any of this money actually go to the creators of the post that gets gold?

        • stoy@lemmy.zip
          3·
          1 year ago

          Creators on reddit?

          Wait, that explains soo much of their terrible UI changes ocer the years!

          On old reddit, usernames, while displayed, are in reality semi hidden, it uses tiny text that blends in the rest of the text.

          This is terrible for creators, their name is their brand, and if they don’t get exposure of it on their content, they will leave.

          This is why new reddit made usernames slightly more prominent, and also started pushing avatars, they want more big creators, that they expect will bring in their audience, an audience that is trained to want to support their creator.

          This is turning reddit from a vibrant community to a generic social media site, a checkbox for what a creator is expected to have…

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          If they get at least 10 gold awarded to them within 12 months, and meet the karma/yr threshold, and stay in “good standing” , and aren’t nsfw, and any number of the other thresholds Reddit could use to say no, then they might get ~50% of the price paid to award it. Otherwise Reddit just keeps it all.

          • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            1 year ago

            They do, actually. Eligible creators (basically you have to live in the US, be over 18 and have made at least 100 karma in the last 12 months) can claim 33% of the money spent on the gold.

            Please don’t just say “no” to a question without actually doing research. Disliking a platform isn’t a reason to spread misinformation about it.

        • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          Theoretically, yes. Supposedly (If you live in the US) you can cash out $0.90 for every ‘gold’ you receive. In the image, the leftmost golden upvote is worth one ‘gold’, and the rightmost is worth 25. This means that one gold is bought for $2.69, so the post creator can claim 33% of that money back if they are eligible. https://www.reddit.com/contributor-program

        • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
          71·
          1 year ago

          Support as in the ‘stroke the ego’ sense not ‘help financially put food on the table and heat their home’ sense

          I would really like to see lemmy add a ‘direct donation’ button to post and comments that links to their paypal or whatever. I think throwing a dollar or two directly at the person who made the comment or post you really liked is an infinitely better way to support them than throwing that money at a company so that they can award a shiny digital icon above the post.

          • Nusm@lemmy.worldEnglish
            25·
            1 year ago

            While I like the sentiment, in reality I think it would do the same thing as it’s doing on Reddit - turn Lemmy into a huge bot farm trying to get money from real users.

        • cmhickman358@thelemmy.club
          391·
          1 year ago

          They don’t get money, they get exposure which is more valuable than money anyway /s in case it wasn’t obvious

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      I feel like all of them kinda are

      Youtube and Discord conveniently added user tags for no reason literally the moment Twitter went down the already pretty deep hole.

      Twitch’s favorite pastime is making bank on “unrelated” content

      Facebook is just Facebook

      Reddit has been constantly losing its appeal every year ever since they moved off the old layout.

      Everyone adding/changing things in some meager attempt to drive profits and value without considering effects of user loss because social media is such an oligopoly it doesn’t matter.

        • fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi
          3·
          1 year ago

          Hiroshima has completely given up on ever making 4chan profitable, so it’s still full of unfiltered organic discussion, porn. funny shitposting and couple of unobtrusive banner ads.

          As low-brow as it can get, 4chan is still part of the solution, unlike plebbit.

    • conc@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yes, but do you see the last one!? It is colorful on the outside and golden on the INSIDE

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      41·
      1 year ago

      “Supports the creators” makes me think they have a revenue split and they got rid of the old system to prevent people from not knowing the difference

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          15·
          1 year ago

          Need influencers if they are going to IPO

          Don’t want to lose money by having to split something people bought a year ago

  • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    1 year ago

    When I used to have gold to gild, I would always give it to the stupidest comment, like the most childish shit ever, if you had a poop joke or something, I’d give you gold, most of the time people would join in and gild the dumb comment.