Make content, get paid.

  • Clbull@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To be honest, if I were in Spez’s shoes, I wouldn’t have gone after the third-party apps but instead created actual incentives to subscribe to Reddit Premium like anonymous posting, enhanced privacy settings, enhanced search functionality, the ability to post images and videos in comments, etc.

    Also I would’ve added a partner program where approved creators can monetize their artwork, videos, nudes, etc. Rather than have such creators astroturf the shit out of your platform to push their Fansly, OnlyFans and Patreon accounts, Spez could’ve cut out the middle-man and profiteered directly from content creators and porn stars.

    I would’ve even poised RPAN to become a direct competitor to apps like Periscope, Kick and Twitch.

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      1 year ago

      I would have fixed the damn API to push ads out to third party apps, with ad revenue sharing. Then implemented a per user API price to enable browsing ad free.

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      1 year ago

      It is a much better (and more honest) way to manipulate users using the Sunk Cost Fallacy.

      Instead of blackmailing Mods to stay by saying “you have invested a lot of your time into this subreddit, it would be a shame if something would happen to it”, they could say to users “you are already paying for the ability to use Reddit, you might as well use Reddit”.

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      1 year ago

      Oh hey I’m relevant! I actually got a message from Reddit back when I was selling porn 2-3 years ago. What did it say you might ask.

      It was a cease and desist for using Reddit to push “obscene and questionable materials” involving “abuse of disabled individuals” because my wheelchair was visible in a few of my stuffs. Not to mention the only reason I needed the wheelchair was cause I had to get an appendix removed and that combined with my heart problem made walking difficult.