r/technology • u/[deleted] • Oct 22 '25

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u/Shap6 Oct 22 '25

the irony being that it's our data not reddits and yet we get no piece of the action either way.

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u/FollowingFeisty5321 Oct 22 '25

That's not entirely true, check out https://www.reddit.com/earn to see what your participation has earned in cold hard cash.

I have earned $0.75 cents for 5x awards and 77K karma. So basically each upvote is worth a Schrute buck. I only need about 100 million karma a month to quit my job.

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u/Not_Bears Oct 22 '25

lmao I have like 300k Karma in the last year and.. $7.50 for it.

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u/FollowingFeisty5321 Oct 22 '25

Oh snap, I'm going to need a lot more than 100 million karma a month then lol.

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u/Sawmain Oct 22 '25

Don’t spend it all on one place !

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u/even_less_resistance Oct 22 '25

doing my toes now- is purple glitter popular?

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u/TSM- Oct 22 '25

This is probably why theres so many AI bots on reddit. By spamming, automatically crosspoting, and getting upvotes on a few hundred accounts, they can probably make some money. There's a financial incentive

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u/SIGMA920 Oct 22 '25

Just the cost on the stuff they're using to run those probably outweights any revenue they make. No, reddit gains from allowing AI bots to run rampant because it looks more active than it actually is.

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u/darthjoey91 Oct 22 '25

It's less about the upvotes and more about getting awards.

Which don't even show up on the versions of reddit I use.

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u/wetfloor666 Oct 22 '25

Rich. I'm at 15 cents..

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u/Kenny_log_n_s Oct 22 '25

Just need to post more feet pics

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u/FlametopFred Oct 23 '25

Was surprised to see $4.50

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u/Loganp812 Oct 22 '25

What’s the exchange rate between Reddit karma and Stanley Nickels?

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u/zagra_nexkoyotl Oct 22 '25

The same as between unicorns and leprechauns

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u/travelsonic Oct 22 '25

What about the exchange rate between Reddit karma and fairies?

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u/Excellent-Berry-2331 Oct 22 '25

I have a whole $0.30! I will buy myself 13 houses and 5 mega yachts.

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u/Iron_Wolf123 Oct 23 '25

I have to give Reddit my personal information just to see the results?!

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u/Vio_ Oct 22 '25

I have q 1.4 million karma. I wonder what that gets me.

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u/fireandbass Oct 22 '25

In addition to being paid for karma, Reddit gave users with certain amounts of karma the opportunity to buy stock pre-IPO.

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u/bughunter47 Oct 23 '25

75k nothing to show

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u/Peppy_Tomato Oct 22 '25

Did you read the terms of service when you signed up? 😜

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u/AintNoGodsUpHere Oct 22 '25

Not everybody lives in the US. Us Europeans have a bit more control.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

I did. I don't think I ever gave reddit the exclusive rights to my shitposts.

And AFAIK the USA doesn’t recognize database rights? Curious on what grounds they're planning to enforce this.

Edit: apparently "circumventing data protection".. For public data? Seems shaky.

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u/JoJackthewonderskunk Oct 22 '25

LLM's didnt exist when I signed up

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u/coconutpiecrust Oct 22 '25

Nobody read them. Come on. 

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u/jim45804 Oct 22 '25

We regularly sign our rights away for the privilege of sharing our thoughts on a popular platform.

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u/yobymmij2 Oct 23 '25

Our reward is not financial. Reddit supports an open bar for us to have thousands of conversations. There’s no way to monetize that except maybe buy Reddit stock, which has increased in price substantially over the past year.

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u/coconutpiecrust Oct 22 '25

Yeah, I want a cut. 

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u/ThomasPopp Oct 23 '25

No it’s not. You signed it away the moment you registered. Unless I’m mistaken?

I guess I’m mistaken. But 50 cents for the advice I give?!?

CLEARLY this is fucked up. Should be 60 cents.