I never knew about this and, as others said, they may have been doing this for a while, but I'd say OP still has a point when they said:

Instead make a better app, they give use this.

This is the sort of thing they work on instead of their shit app. They've had years to improve that app. Longer than NFTs.

Didn't they already long sell NFT avatars?

I think I just got cancer from looking at that screenshot

Weren't nft avatars being sold for like months now? I remember them being cyberbullied and banned on mass from 196 (which is extremely funny if you ask me)

They already did such thing with the avatars ( they were buyable and "Marked" as nfts )

It takes a special kind of stupid to spend money on these....

If you don't think of it in the context of Reddit's bullshit, the idea of having special avatars that you have to pay for as a form of monetization isn't the worst thing imo. As long as it doesn't negatively affect users and isn't on top of other predatory forms of monetization.

Not news. They already did since nfts exploded in popularity. Also they did give away free avatar nfts since then for some events.

It's like they are trying to get rid of users. I had seen the nft on the browser version ages ago but all of this is the reason why we preferred 3rd party browsing experience. Instead of fixing reddit they took that away

This is like their 4th collection, selling them for a while. Crypto Twitter doesn't care about them.

Love lemmy for being able to turn off avatars.

What currency is đ?

Those nft avatars are cringe

On Lemmy all the avatars are free.

Nobody better copy the sloth or I'll be real mad.

My theory is Musk is trying to bankrupt Twitter quickly so he can minimise his losses, after his impulsive ego finally had some consequences. I think Huffman thinks Musk is a genius and is trying to emulate him by pivoting into crypto, to create his own PayPal style pay day.

I also don't think he's going to be able to create the perpetual motion money machine he's expecting, but it's not like he's going to go personally bankrupt trying. Graphic artists are a cheap labor business expense compared to the potential gain, and at worst you get your own marketplace out of it.

It would be easy enough to launder cash through such a system that he'll probably make more money than most will ever own in their lifetime. Even if 99% of it is only ever traded for less than a dollar.

The question I have is whether he's competent to keep enough users for a long enough time to buy a personal fortified island or just a personal apocalypse fort.

They've been doing it a while. They even gave some free ones away to encourage people to buy more. I actually have some of the free ones because why not. I would never pay for them though

I thought they discontinued this?

How do I crosspost this to !fucknfts?

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opens trenchcoat hey, I got some of those copy & pasted nft pics for cheap. you in?

I didn't know about this either. I still cant believe people fall for that nonsense.

I guess I did buy a bunch of skins in rocket league, is that any different than an nft? I just really like how the cars look lol

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