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So they’re getting rid of coins and awards, but don’t have any kind of replacement actually planned yet?
They should have held off until they knew what the replacement would be. As it is, they’re yanking something that made Reddit unique for…what, exactly?
The replacement is to pay people with actual money per upvotes awards etc according to some code that was spotted recently
Great huh? That's really going to improve the quality of their content and their profitability... 🙄
EDIT https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-contributor-program-3343397/
And oh look, it’s only available for people in the US! Because only Americans know things, amirite? 🙄
All they had to do was do nothing.
Reddit is an American website... IDK why this would surprise anyone.
A company headquartered in the US but it's a website that has a presence in many countries, including the EU.
Maybe not surprising, but they are probably shortchanging themselves by not allowing folks from abroad to contribute into the program. USians aren't the only content creators.
but the mentality of the whole platform is very USian centric nevertheless.
Sure, and that's a problem. r/politics was too US centric which eventually drove the creation of other subs like r/animie_titties
There are (or were) a lot of corners that were an exception to the rule, for example I don't think that anyone would argue that r/de was very USian.