In this post, I argue that Reddit should begin to pay people for their contributions to the platform, or barring that, people should leave Reddit and share their writing in different ways.

  • NotTheOnlyGamer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Members didn’t join Reddit with any expectations of compensation. If you want money for content, try and put up a paywall, charge people for it, etc. If you don’t like what you write being in the public domain, don’t write in public on someone else’s computer. It’s that simple.

  • PlasticExistence@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    I’ve chosen to leave. Reddit is really not what it used to be, and I don’t feel like helping rich assholes get richer for nothing in return.

    When the subreddits come back from their current protest, I will run one of the account scrub and deletion tools. I saw reports that the scripts don’t overwrite comments in subs set to private.

    • yoasif@fedia.ioOP
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      1 year ago

      Personally, I prefer not to salt the earth, as I was one of the people trying to help build up a corpus of good quality knowledge. Still, I suppose we can remake a lot of it on open platforms.

      I would instead prefer to backup my posts, so you can at least repost them as you like.