Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.
laughs in Lemmy/Kbin
A Lemmy lemon for your good sir! 🍋
Give and you shall receive, one prestigious award for you sir: Lemmy lemonade.🍹
Thanks for the drink!
I like Lemmy Lemons 🍋
Lemons always bring to mind Cave Johnson’s rant about making life take the lemons back and burning houses down with combustible lemons😌
Give and you shall receive, one prestigious award for you sir: Lemmy lemonade.🍹
I would not mind a Lemmynade as part of the greater Lemmy award system, if that is even possible in a fediverse.
It is, I have them 100000000+, help yourself:
🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋🍹🍋…
Thank you kindly!
🍋
Here have a dollar 💵
I was hoping we could keep the reddit posts in !reddit@lemmy.ml
While I agree that user-generated reddit topics are best left to a dedicated community, I also think that published articles discussing the platform are appropriate for any Technology community; no different than Twitter, Threads, or other social media platform news coverage.
I’m with you, but judging by the number of upvotes this post got, apparently we’re in the minority on this.
Lemmy should make its own awards.
Award #1 – Blackjack
Aware #2 – Hookers
In fact forget the awards
That’s what this Dell PowerEdge I’m posting on is for
🏅
Amazing. Really does sound like they’re trying to sabotage the site now.
I was thinking about it; Lemmy could technically implement a system of gold on its own e.g can give one award a month after hitting a certain karma level or something to siphon more Reddit users.
But a lot of people on this site seem to not want normie Reddit users flocking here and my personal expectation is that people here would not care for awards. So whether they flock here or not will likely depend on how fed up they get.
Feels like Elon bought Reddit and we just haven’t heard about it yet
I think little piggy spez is an Elon fanboy so it makes sense
https://i.imgur.com/sGCReCn.png
Can someone please put Elon’s face (person on the right side)
My eyes and I are very upset with you for causing me to see such horror
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@InternetTubes @phx He did the Jerma joke “Do so much dumb shit that people have problems trying to figure out why people are mad at you” but unironically and irl
I prefer to think that it’s all coordinated by real life Bond villain (and Musk’s old business partner) Peter Thiel. He failed at setting up competing Twitter platforms, so he got Musk to buy and tank it. After seeing how effective that was they roped in reddit’s owners to undermine that as well.
Let’s not forget the Saudi royal family. They really hate social media.
Definitely not. Here’s the breakdown of the $44mil purchase:
- $5 mil from other investors, including a Saudi prince
- $26 mil from Elon, underwritten by stocks in Tesla (which significantly dropped in value after the purchase)
- $13 mil in a loan that Twitter took out to buy itself on Musk’s behalf.
Twitter could hardly pay the interest on that $13 mil, even before Musk tanked the company’s revenue. Either Twitter steps into line and gets more investment from right wing control freaks, or it dies - both could be seen as a win in the eyes of Peter Thiel or the Saudis.
I admit I like upvotes. They provide feedback on whether a comment was helpful. And awards highlighted the most helpful comments.
Did you mean awards? I haven’t found anyone who doesn’t like upvotes so I’m not sure why the distinction
The point I tried to make was: Awards are like an upvote on steroids. I like upvotes, so I like awards.
Sorry for wording it so badly.
I dunno, I thought your wording perfectly described Reddit comment experience 🤷🏻♀️
I have no problem with Redditors flocking over here, but I just don’t think online discussions should be “awarded”. It just distracts from actual discussion and turns everything into a popularity contest. Leave the karma and point hoarding on Reddit IMHO.
I think it would be a great system to easily donate to instance hosts if it was supported as an instance opt-in feature.
That was the original premise of reddit gold. You bought it to support the server costs. It used to even show you how much server time your gold had supported. I think at one point it even had a progress bar for monthly costs.
With how Lemmy works, it might be a little complicated. Especially since the payment information would need to be federated, and there would be a lot of complications depending on the region the server was hosted in.
Yeah. Giving awards would probably be limited to comments/posts that are on the same instance as your user.
Given the work by the guys behind podcasting 2.0 it would be interesting to see the fediverae adopt boosts backed by sats / the lightning network. It seems like they solve a lot of the same problems. You need a common currency people can freely transfer in small amounts to support content they like and the infra they are hosted on.
Here is an article by one of my favorite podcasts that have gone all in on boosts.
Honestly I wouldn’t want anything baked into the protocol, but I can see people donating small amounts to the instance hosting a worthy comment if there was a simple enough way to do it.
Cryptocurrencies were supposed to enable that, but I think we are still a long way away (no, lighting does not qualify).
A lot of Reddit users have become more toxic over the years. Let them sink down with the Reddit failboat, we don’t need them here.
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man
😂
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that used to be what i though would be my queue to exit…until i realised that my reddit experience was basically RIF… so yea if they want to get rid of another great chunk of users, do get rid of old reddit, do it spez!
Haha same. “Oh I will just use old reddit” forgetting that 95% of my internet usage is mobile and old.reddit is nearly impossible to navigate on mobile. I have been 94% Lemmy since July.
Same here.
I didn’t think old reddit would outlast me lol
That’s gonna be the final nail in the coffin for me. As of now I only go there for my city’s subreddit as the fediverse equivalent isn’t quite active yet.
Go be the change you want. Create posts, invite the users from your city’s subreddit
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Yea I think the outrage is or should be directed at removing the already given awards. Just to go and wipe everything is not a great idea
I hated the “coin culture” with a passion (hey, look, it’s Bill Gates, let’s give him tons of paid emoticons he won’t care about!), but it’s clear this move is part of Reddit’s further enshittification. You can bet whatever replaces coins will be even shittier, and I think Reddit’s users know it.
My bet? NFTs.
reddit does have a rather thriving nft market for avatars
Surely this isn’t true.
It was such a nice way to monetize, just a teensy little icon on posts you could easily ignore. Tells you whatever replaces it is gonna be far less acceptable.
Gonna be they’re version of a blue check mark. Buy the widget and it stays at the top regardless of up votes or down votes.
They were a zero-effort money printer. Why on Earth would they ditch them?
This makes no sense at all even from their perspective.
They said they are replacing it with something else. I believe more money will be directly involved.
A subscription, perhaps?
Don’t they already have that (premium)?
Yea, guess you’re right.
I think they’re changing how awards work. A portion of the award price will go to the awardee.
It’s going to be a very cheap way for them to pay freelance writers / creators.
In other words, imagine something like TiqTock with lower quality content.
Ah, interesting. I never really got into the TikTok so don’t really have a reference point.
Is spez trying to beat Musk’s record for number of strategic blunders made while running a tech company?
It seems so, and also seems like he’s in a hurry to catch up.
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The ones that aren’t bots, shills or spammers are apathetic. They won’t be contributing any content to speak of. They’ll also eventually get bored and leave because of that same reason.
it’s zombie reddit over there. most of the people that stayed were just lurkers. They still think this was all caused by “power tripping mods” and don’t notice the site decaying around them. They’re just glad the mods that chastised them for being racist are gone.
For some people the experience hasn’t decayed. There is still cat pics and vitriol, if that’s all they used to see that’s all they still see.
They want to force redditors to see ads. That’s the whole point. Gilding someone was a way of gifting an ad-free experience to a random redditor, and Reddit doesn’t like that anymore.
Of course it’s also because spez doesn’t like seeing too many awards on “fuck spez” comments.
I imagine having a baked-in method for users with disposable income to avoid seeing any ads isn’t exactly an attractive feature for potential advertisers.
That’s literally YouTube Premium’s value proposition.
the lengths people will go before installing adblocker
most Reddit users use the official app now, so an adblocker is pretty much useless there
(+ the vast majority don’t know how to use an adblocking proxy on their phone)
Apparently, Reddit didn’t learn anything from Digg
This reminds me of the youtube dislike button thing. When a popular majority opinion pops up against the rich, it usually brings lots of gold and platinum awards which drives engagement and visibility. It is not very advertiser/owner class friendly and gives too much power to the masses.
Any new system they create, if any, will not allow this kind of behavior.
Ell Oh Fucking Ell. What is even the point of reddit anymore?
