Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards

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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?!?!??!!

It’s really hard for me to identify with a Reddit user who is enraged because thank-you coins and awards are being ditched. I never cared about that aspect of Reddit or got involved with it. However, taking things away from people is a really easy way to piss them off. That part I think I can grasp.

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.

They are slowly working themselves up to disabling old.reddit.com .

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.

how much is anyone's betting that it will involve crypto in some way? i raise you a very fine 6mm dia 1m long aluminum tube

I checked some discussion over there and most of the comments seemed to be people who don’t care cuz they don’t use em. Those who remained after api are just along for the ride I guess

Only a few new about their chats getting deleted

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.

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.

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.

they just want to become as generic as possible lol. "Let's see how much fun we can drain from the lives of our zombies"

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Apparently, Reddit didn’t learn anything from Digg

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This reminds me of the youtube dislike button thing. When a popular majority opinion pops up against the rich, it usually brings lots of gold and platinum awards which drives engagement and visibility. It is not very advertiser/owner class friendly and gives too much power to the masses.

Any new system they create, if any, will not allow this kind of behavior.

how worse can reddit get at this point

People who think they're replacing it with crypto place your bets here!

Ell Oh Fucking Ell. What is even the point of reddit anymore?

If I still used Reddit, this would be an awesome change. People who gave awards were fucking losers lol.

Trump style dead catism?

Keep doing crazy things so people stop talking about your last crazy thing?