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X changes creator payouts to depend on engagement, not ads (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, so now people will be incentivized to spam more bombastic and extreme content to more and more fanatic groups, brilliant.

[โ€“] Dremor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

As ads revenue is crashing, they want to be able to rely on something less easy to quantify in order to modulate it. Previously they had to pay x cents per click, now they can just divide the little they earn arbitrarily in order to keep in the green.