Reworking Awarding: Changes to Awards, Coins, and Premium
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Hi all, I’m u/venkman01 from the Reddit product team, and I’m here to give everyone an early look at the future of how redditors award (and...
  • ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This seems like the dumbest decision imaginable. Users are flocking to alternatives, many of those who haven’t don’t trust you, and you’re trying to become profitable … so you delete the stuff people paid for without any sort of replacement. What a genius ideaǃ Making the platform less unique and giving the middle finger to the people who give you money in one go!

    There’s no way a human adult is running this company. It has to be a council of toddlers run by a keyboard-smashing orangutan. At this point, they might as well start encouraging bots and karma farming. Maybe even pay people to do it!

    Wait, what did you just say? They might actually do that?

    The circus never ends.

  • joelfromaus@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    One thing I’ve seen a lot of is comments wishing that Lemmy/Kbin had support for some sort of gilding. So it’s obviously a feature that people enjoyed using which means Reddit just has to enshittify it. This is the way.

      • livus@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Kbin already has this covered. We can pay monthly to keep servers running via

        Patreon and Liberapay.

        @Ernest has transferred the existing Buy Me A Coffee money over to the server fund and from this point on we really can buy him a beer via Buy Me A Coffee which is cool!

      • joelfromaus@aussie.zone
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        1 year ago

        Absolutely! Server donations are good for a single instance but I think a service that allows users to purchase gold/awards and awards the particular instance (with funds) that they get used on would help fund the Fediverse as a whole. I imagine implementing something like that would not be simple but anything is better than injecting ads.

        • thanevim@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          implementing something like that would not be simple

          Especially with the idea that an instance a user calls home/registered on would have to be ok with allowing a donation link to go to the instance that the user you’re “gilding” is on

    • GrossGhost@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yes haha. Constantly. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re happy to be rid of the type of user who would move to the fediverse anyway. Maybe that was their plan all along.

    • EricKendrick@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Yep, and was proud to - let me support Reddit and good contributors.

      I wonder if the exodus of people like myself brought this on - the drop in awards given may have been significant indicator or less engagement, so needed to muddy the waters?

      • zalack@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I bought gold a few times. I had no problem with “this content was so good it inspired me to give back a little to the free service we’re all using.”

        I wouldn’t mind some equivalent for the fediverse honestly. Let me donate to the home server of a user who’s comment I thought was especially good.

        I know you can donate directly, but I do think there was something about also making another user’s day that felt good about the Gold system. The service gets some fuel in the tank and the comment author gets a little boost to their mood. It was nice.

        I agree it got way too out of hand when they moved beyond Gold though.

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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?