One of the things that drives Reddit as a social media platform is the anonymity.

Once you start tying monetization mechanisms to pay users for content, similar to YouTube or Instagram, you lose the anonymity.

Reddit is already walking the path to destroy everything that made it a different social media platform.

Someone is holding that bag, though. Unfortunately for us, the people holding that bag have the kind of money to make our lives hell just for a fraction of a percentage point of value for their bottom line.

Moderators there are volunteers, responsible for curating the content that users post… The mods just need to limit their responsibility and only enforce the site-wide rules.

Allow their subs to devolve to shitposts and memes.

Reddit is already dead. It just might be a few years before Spez and co figure it out.