Read all about it at the above link. There's way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.

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[–] 441 points 3 years ago (30 children)

Community Points are the first step towards a better future for online communities. In order to be truly independent from platforms like Reddit, communities need to be owned by their members in ways that platforms cannot take away. With the advent of blockchain technology, we now have a way to establish this freedom in a decentralized and secure way.

The way to be independent of Reddit is by having a token on a blockchain maintained by Reddit?

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  • [–] 339 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Also an odd statement from a company that just strong armed a bunch of communities into either conforming or having their leaders replaced.

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  • [–] 178 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Holy shit.

    I did not expect the next wave of new users on Lemmy to be happening this soon.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    New LemmyFediverse boi since the Great Purge; this is seriously happening again, already? Glad I got out when I did. Compared to the old place, experiencing and interacting with Lemmy is like a calming dip in the Great Link (not a Changeling honest)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Yeah same. There are a couple of communities over there that I kind of miss, although one or two of them have been recreated on Lemmy basic nobody posts on the yet, or they get continually brigated.

    I need to check out the other servers though. Lemmy is just so far superior to what Reddit was in how it's fundamentally designed.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Me neither. How long till old.reddit.com goes away? That was supposed to be the next big spike in the Lemmy growth curve.

    I can't believe I read that whole thing. I take that back, I can't believe Reddit actually thought this was a good idea and put it out into the world.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Well in January I believe they told third party app developers that they weren't going to charge for the API this year (but that someone was in the works). Then May I believe is when reneged on that? June? I know the charging went into effect on July 1.

    In May/June Spez said that old Reddit wasn't going anywhere. So we can extrapolate ~October for them to announce it's ending, and then it being killed by the end of the year.

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  • [–] 131 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    Guys, you missed the block chain boat, this isn't going to save your IPO

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  • [–] 91 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    They'll do something with AI in 3 years or so, if they still exist.

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  • [–] 55 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Y’all heard about that Web 2.0 thing?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Although I'm not in any way aware or alive when that was happening back then - that ".com bubble" blast I think? - I surmise that was a real crash-and-burn phenomenon, McKinstry's "CR6" internet show being one of its casualties, despite its significance in online emergent media history.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Isn’t anything post dot com bubble considered Web 2.0?

    So we’re still in Web 2.0, or when was the cutoff?

    The dot com bubble was late 90s, early 2000s, tons of companies went under. Lot of jobs and VC money lost. People had to rethink how they could monetize, stop a lot of advertising scams, and what was really worth investing in that might return a profit.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Spez has been jonesing for redditcrypto since 2016.

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