• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So, while awards are coming back, the phrase “thanks for the gold, kind stranger” is still effectively a retired piece of Reddit history.

    Reddit is a retired piece of Reddit history

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    Oh, they’re being cute with this. You need to pay money to get what reddit is calling “gold” (formerly known as coins), which you can use to give awards with. But one of the old awards you still can’t give is the old-style reddit “gold” (premium). So they want ever more money without even giving the minor account boost you used to get, just for some skin for a comment. Fuck those guys.

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      7 months ago

      Why have a thriving community when you can kill the nice and/or helpful ones with a lead pipe and then try to squeeze money out of the remaining morons?

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    beloved features — like the ability to “gild” posts by donating a Reddit Premium subscription — are not returning.

    That was like more than half the point of gold. Some random comment getting lots of gold would mean the recipient, in turn, could give out gold too.

    Now…

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      Yeah, like the point wasn’t a “here’s how much i like it” it was “here’s a reward for providing such good content”. I would never give someone this, but old gold, maybe

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      7 months ago

      “great, I got upvoted by reddit “blue” subscribers…this is so special :/” energy

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    7 months ago

    Meh, it’s just another publicly traded company now, it’s just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.

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      7 months ago

      Deleted my 15 year old account. I’m not going to let that weasel spez make $3 a year off my time. I hope something else can take over that is not for profit someday. A reddit like link sharer is important for the health of the Internet.

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        7 months ago

        I’d delete my account, but then people wouldn’t see my advertisement for Lemmy in my profile. Plus my repeated 'FUCK REDDIT’s.

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    Still doesn’t fix the ill will from when they abruptly killed Apollo, in a stupid way that screwed both users and an indie dev who actually cared and had dedicated significant effort to the platform.

    Also, I absolutely cannot wait for when Reddit itself becomes meme stocked. Somehow, both GameStop and AMC are still alive, but the crazies are back, and Reddit seems like an excellent candidate.

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      They don’t care about ill will, they care about money. They made nothing from third party apps and millions from gutting the API and selling it to AI companies.

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        not only did they gut the API for actual people, they carved out exceptions for “low volume users” to keep the bots inflating activity

        now they’ve literally stolen from the people who paid to support the site in the first place. absolutely shameless

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    Quiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. “Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they’ve kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years”. An unnamed C staffer blurts out “I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let’s just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!”

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    I almost thought that closing awards, taking the money, then opening awards was a scam to defraud people of their money.

    Then I realized awards was a scam all along.

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        While I’ve never given Reddit a penny, it was totally different back then. In those times, the site was much smaller, and buying gold got you r/lounge access and supported the site. They felt more community oriented and weren’t aggressively monetizing the service. Nowadays it’s like paying for Facebook or twitter, absolutely not.

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          Down to my bones I believe what happened to reddit was the plan all along. Yes back in the day there was more community that we made but it doesn’t change the fact the dbags were, are, and will be steering the boat… that said my first guided comment felt dope and going to the lounge was fun.

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            It’s hard to say. I think it was obvious they planned to use ads and gold to break even, but it took many years to begin monetizing aggressively. Once new Reddit and the app came around, and they started making noise about an IPO, it became obvious.

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          r/lounge was easily the cringiest community I have ever ancountered on reddit.