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Lemmy should make its own awards.

Award #1 -- Blackjack

Aware #2 -- Hookers

I was hoping we could keep the reddit posts in !reddit@lemmy.ml

did they just... k kk kill a source of... i in income?!?!??!!

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.

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

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man

Is spez trying to beat Musk’s record for number of strategic blunders made while running a tech company?

They were a zero-effort money printer. Why on Earth would they ditch them?

This makes no sense at all even from their perspective.

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

Honestly I can't wait for the downfall of reddit. They seem to be constantly pushing away and annoying their users.

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.

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.

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.