While reddit makes further enemies, I laugh because I know the #fediverse will benefit from their outflow. The fediverse will become even more diverse.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Yeah, I’m over here egging them on like push more people here let’s go!
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That'll be $0.99 please.
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That company is so badly run it's laughable.
i may get some flack for this but i honestly think reddit had it’s best years when alexis was most involved.
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Didn’t Reddit gold start as just a user-run bot, that kept a tally of how many times it had been invoked for any particular recipient?
And then Reddit forced the bot to retire so they could offer a paid version. And now they’re retiring their mandatory replacement. Good job Reddit.
There was at least reddit silver that worked this way.
I thought Reddit silver was just an image a user would post if they were too broke to afford gold.
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That’s what’s great about all these companies. They take credit for, and try to derive value from, things they didn’t actually create. Reddit keeps on talking about “their” data that was created by users, for free, and moderated by other users, also for free. Yet it’s somehow theirs and they can sell it?
Twitter didn’t invent hashtags. They were user created annd eventually incorporated in to the service.
These services add very little value, but they believe they add it all.
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Are people really upset about it? To me it was always pointless, and the few times I got gold and was allowed to peek into r/lounge it was just full of the most insufferable users (just people that thought they were special because they got gold).
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My belief is that they want to tokenize Karma and any other reward/currency will compete against their new tradable currency.
I believe they had already said years ago that the r/CC moons was a test run for something site-wide.
Personally I made $300 after moons first tanked, just from some lame comments in the subreddit that was ruined by the scheme.
I will likely use my 150k+ Karma account for profit if this happens and it won't be for the benefit of the community like the last decade of my activity used to be.
Lemmy is now where I participate in a positive way.
Because the karma whoring wasn't bad enough as is. What could possibly go wrong with a scheme like that?
But if they want to throw a bit of money my way to quit, I'm not going to say no either...
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Remember kids, don't let the news tell you how to feel. Watch out for words in the title like "outrage" and "furious". Anger increases engagement and they know it.
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I said this in another thread - I bet they're going the YouTube route and are going to start allowing content creators to make money.
Might sound good on the surface but it's absolutely going to shred what Reddit used to be. Goodbye discussion forum and hello new social media.
I can't think of a single good reason for anyone to actually want that. Reddit isn't a site for content creation, it's an aggregator. It works for YouTube because, well, it's YouTube. It's practically synonymous with content creation. But exactly zero people are on Reddit for that.
Also its a forum and its appeal is asking questions to real people. Paying users will destroy that appeal.
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All those users complaining about their coins going to waste and I'm wondering why the fuck you'd ever spend real money on that.
That's like paying for porn.
Entire OnlyFans community furiously typing
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This finally pushed me to stop supporting the platform with a premium sub and now here I am, checking out lemmy!
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The worst part is they're also removing all of the existing gold awards from old posts as well.
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on one hand, reddit gold is useless and a waste of money imo
other hand, they just keep going for making the most controversial decisions with zero thought lmao
reddit gold used to be how the community helped with server costs back when reddit had only a few employees
I still have my reddit account, only to malicously mod one community and update a secret community about a move to lemmy, but I only use reddit now to do a quick check in on those subs and then a glace at the front page.
Anyway, i saw the reddit post and a bunch of people were livid and said they were doing chargebacks now. I informed them that chargebacks cost reddit more money than they initally spent (spend $5 they have to return the $5 and pay a $20 fee), and if tok many users do a chargeback then credit card companies would stop paying them wink.
EDIT: in response to telling people that it would hurt reddit finacially I got a 2 gold and 2 platnium awards which i hope were paid for with chargebacked credits.
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Are they furious? Sure. But I feel like anyone still on Reddit just doesn’t care what they do, they’ll still be there scrolling.
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Just looked and I have 1100 coins. Not sure what from, I've never bought any. Any suggestions for them?
Never mind, I decided I only go to Reddit now for one small, private sub, so I went there and gave awards to posts I thought were good.
Gild pro-Lemmy posts / tutorials
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Here’s what I received today… first time I’ve visited Reddit in over a month:
Hello from Reddit,
We're reaching out because you have Reddit Premium and/or Reddit Coins on your account.
TL;DR: We're making updates to awards and coins on Reddit that we'll complete by September 12, 2023. As part of this, we made a decision to move away from Reddit coins and awards. This includes the 700 monthly coins* and Premium Awards, which are currently part of the Reddit Premium experience.
You'll still be able to use your Reddit Coins until September 12, after which they'll be removed from your account.
Note: all other current Premium perks will still continue to exist, including the ad-free experience.
As we looked at our current awarding system, there was consistent feedback from redditors that stood out – particularly around the clutter from awards and all the steps involved with awarding content. We also learned that redditors want awarded content to be more valuable. With that, we are reworking how great content and contributions are rewarded on Reddit. We will have more updates to share soon.
If you have further questions please check out our announcement post to read more about the update.
- This perk is part of the paid Reddit Premium experience
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It’s almost like spez secretly enjoys Lemmy. Doing the work for us.
I just gave away 26 Reddit golds to everyone I liked in /r/RedditAlternatives
Never paid for gold but somehow had like 10 years of it on my 16 year account.
Redditors care about their coins a lot. Not really a shock.
I mean, it's less about the coins and more about something that has an equivalent monetary value being wiped without any compensation whatsoever.
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if they continue using reddit
are they actually furious?
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