Community Points allow members of Reddit communities to own a piece of their community, earn rewards for quality contributions, and unlock special features.
Read all about it at the above link. There's way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.
Mainly because there are a couple of subreddits without any real equivalent on Lemmy. The app is the only way on mobile to easily access them, since the web app is shit.
I deleted the app, but I also went back and deleted all of my comments across all of my accounts going back 10+ years.
Content (specifically, moderated content) is the entire value proposition for reddit or any social network. Everything reddit-the-company does is based on serving up that content, which their users generate and moderate for free. Anything else is just trying to cash in on that. I ended up deleting tens of thousands of posts because I don’t want to add value to a service that I wouldn’t even think about supporting.