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[-] shufflerofrocks@beehaw.org 104 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Genuinely don't understand how reddit has failed to make money.

Reddit's entire value is based upon the unpaid contributions of its users- they generate and moderate all the content on the site for free, and these are the things that bring people to the site.

How entitled must one be to think they can ignore all this and be fine?

Also how tf is reddit not able to break bank?

The functionality of their website was relatively simple - not underming the reddit devs here. The costs must've been minimal before the redesign and the dumb ass decision to host their own images and videos. Did they burn up all their money for the redesign and the shitty app?

[-] spamfajitas@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago

Can't forget about https://nft.reddit.com/, the real moneymaker. Nothing says value-adding like nfts, the dumbfucks.

[-] darkmugglet@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

An NFT as your avatar? Wow, it's dumber than I thought.

[-] Gork@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Ah but it's exclusive you see. Your avatar can be a glowy, animated Snoo, whereas everyone else just has free peasant avatars.

For the low price of 105 ETH $(227,389.05). Makes about as much sense as the really high priced ships in Star Citizen.

[-] ClammyMantis488@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

I hate how much effort they put into this.

[-] artemisia@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

The real landed gentry.

[-] koze@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

And they are still hiring engineers to build this NFT marketplace, just saw a job ad on LinkedIn the other day

[-] Sokkahhplayah@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, I totally forgot about how stupid that was lol

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