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A Lemmy lemon for your good sir! 🍋
Give and you shall receive, one prestigious award for you sir: Lemmy lemonade.🍹
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😌
Lemmy should make its own awards.
Award #1 -- Blackjack
Aware #2 -- Hookers
In fact forget the awards
I like to give out Lemmy Lemons 🍋
I enjoy that they're meaningless and if people find them obnoxious they can just downvote them.
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.
did they just... k kk kill a source of... i in income?!?!??!!
Giving someone a reward gives them some Reddit premium, including coins they can spend. Wouldn't be surprised if they relaunch it, in a way where everyone loses
I got a message saying I apparently have premium and/or coins, and to use them before they expire.
But, even before the Reddit plague I had no way of even knowing that, because I used old Reddit and RiF.
Anyway, my point is that this change only affects official Reddit app users, and new Reddit users.
So Reddit found a way to take stuff away from the users who weren't directly affected by the third-party app shutdowns.
It's a genius way to make sure everyone is pissed off all at once.
"We will continue pursuing profit until we are profitable"
-some dumbass
I think that reddit's "going public" guru squad doesn't want redditors to be able to have any control on what content is pushed to the top of the queue. That is just a guess, though.
I just dumped all my old coins onto comments encouraging people to do chargebacks for any year-long Premium subscriptions since they're in material breach.
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.
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 admit I like upvotes. They provide feedback on whether a comment was helpful. And awards highlighted the most helpful comments.
Honestly the whole reddit protest was really good for me. I stopped spending so much time online, I only open lemmy occasionally too. Overall goodness for the planet
Is spez trying to beat Musk’s record for number of strategic blunders made while running a tech company?
Spez idolizes Musk. So he's doing the exact same thing.
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.
Reddit has gone to the crapper. It's not just banning 3rd party apps, it's not just ditching awards, all of these wildly unpopular decisions have left a permanent scar on the user base and it shows. Now, all of the top posts on r/popular are garbage nonsense like "unpopular opinion: the far left and far right are both just as bad as each other" or "im a horse girl rate me". Sad times.
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.
Keep it up Reddit! Push more people away! Lemmy devs watching all the Reddit refugees (I'm one): o.O
When the API changes were announced, for the first time I started thinking I should leave reddit. This coin thing was just kicking me while I was down. Ok, they want to get rid of awards for a new system. But you also want to remove them from past posts?? And you're not going to convert coin balances into anything?
Those are the things a company that has no regard for it's users does.
Honestly I can't wait for the downfall of reddit. They seem to be constantly pushing away and annoying their users.
how much is anyone's betting that it will involve crypto in some way? i raise you a very fine 6mm dia 1m long aluminum tube
For me, I don't much care. I stopped visiting Reddit when my app was shut down. I find my information and make my contributions elsewhere now.
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.
Wasn't that one of the exclusive "features" of the official app. I guess there's no point for exclusive features now.
That's a stupid one though. Why would you get enraged at something that was only made to make profit for the reddit guys? There's no real value on reddit coins or awards, it's just a jpg or gif for somebody's comment or post.
If anything, it's funny that they removed an easy cash grab they had.
I haven't visited reddit since boost stopped working a few days after the API change. Filled the void mostly with twitter. Don't miss it at all.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
