I assume you that awards are optional for each server.
How would you determine if awards are enabled? The server of the community or the server where the account was created?
I assume you that awards are optional for each server.
How would you determine if awards are enabled? The server of the community or the server where the account was created?
The life is strange games. The great storys combined with the superpowers are an absolute blast!
Honestly I think awards are a decent way of determining the quality of a post. If a Reddit post has a lot of awards it's a sign that it is especially helpful/interesting. I know there are exceptions and sometimes the flood of awards at the top of the post is annoying, but often it works for determining the quality.
So people will aim to make posts of similar quality to get awards as well.
Karma on the other hand is too easy to get so its leads to shitty reposts to get a lot of likes. But the people don't give awards to reposts that often.
There is a reason many YouTubers sell discord roles. Many people are willing to spend 5€/month for a stupid discord rank, so I don't see why it's wrong to profit of people willing to buy awards
If you prefer direct donation, having something like awards won't stop you but if someone wants to buy that overpriced sticker, they can as well.
I agree with @tigr@lemmy.world : Giving the user the power to decide where the money goes to is the best option. This eliminates the need for a centralised account with a system to spread the money, which would definitely lead to a lot of arguments.
The user could select something like 20% lemmy devs, 30% instance of community, 50% instance their created the account on. This way the user can decide who gets their "donation"
I can understand the mindset, but I worry most people don't think like this.
The thing is, that small rewards for "donations" will likely make the people much more willing to spend money in the first place. Even if it's as small as a sticker on someone else's post that costs the servers involved like a handful of API calls. But when a 1€ award is 3x as popular as the 1€ donation, it will greatly increase the funds available to the instance and, hence better servers, more features etc
Im so glad we didn't loose the humor in the migration !
Good to know. Havent used it for years so I didnt realise it expanded outside the browser.
notates username in case i need an account somewhere but am too lazy to create one
I think lemmy should consider adding rewards to fund the ecosystem.
Im using jerboa and it looks great!
Samsung phones just sucks.
Switched to fairphone and could root it without installing twrp, there was only one extra app and I could just disable the google apps and switch to foss ones.