Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Spez: “hmm. Have we fucked ourselves enough? How can we enshittify harder?”
There’s a guy-thrown-out-window meme in there.
Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Spez: “hmm. Have we fucked ourselves enough? How can we enshittify harder?”
There’s a guy-thrown-out-window meme in there.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
We’re just getting warmed up here! There’s so much to do.
How about we introduce several tiers of premium currency, like copper, silver, gold, platinum rubies and diamonds, each with their unique exchange rates.
You could have limited-time awards purchased with one of the premium currencies. Also, add time-gated features, like temporary access to meme subreddits, or comment and post visibility boosts.
Pay-to-win mechanics should be included too. How about time-limited karma boosters?
Oh, and loot boxes! We’ve got to have those too. You could buy basic loot boxes with copper coins, and in those you could find a few silver coins randomly. With the silver coins, you can buy silver boxes, some of which may contain gold coins, and so on all the way to diamond tier. Now that you have a convoluted assortment of different currencies, you can use them to boost your account, posts and comments in different ways. Oh, and Season passes too, can’t forget those!
Ads. So much ads! Of course, you can get rid of some of them, depending on how much you pay and which currency you use. These are all time-limited features, so you better keep those coins and gems flowing every day.
And subscriptions too! Once you subscribe to something like 1231 copper coins a day, you can’t cancel without climbing the mount Kilimanjaro. The only cancel button is physically located on a computer somewhere up there.
And there’s so much more to come.
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Those novel currencies, of course, will be tied to Bitcoin or some other “coin” they’ll create exclusively for that purpose, brothel-money style.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Absolutely! You just gotta involve blockchain, AI and cloud computing. Otherwise, the investors won’t know how hot Reddit is. Slap on some quantum computing, and you’re all set.