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I really hope that Lemmy will never have it. Karma destroyed Reddit.
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it kinda did yeah...awards were fun though
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Awards on lemmy would be a great way to subsidize server costs.
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100% want this.
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^Mother fucker^.... *Digs out wallet
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The eye shines make it look wall-eyed.
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This is cool what program did you use to make it?
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Thanks! It was just from Midjourney.
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Wouldn't you be able to make awards pointless by running an instance that handed them out without any payment?
Personally, I hated awards on Reddit and always disabled them in my client.
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The technicalities are above my head but I don't see how/why.
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Couldn't other instances somehow prevent those awards from displaying on theirs?
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Doesn't make sense to do by someone paying to host an instance.
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Wouldn't everyone have to create users on that specific instance to do it?
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I don’t know how it could be implemented across the fediverse. But if they could figure it out I would pay. I was a Reddit premium payer just because I loved giving awards.
The trick would be making it work across all instances. Because I could see some just opting out and then it would be broken across many different communities.
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I made a mockup:
Silver Lemming:
Gold Lemming:
Platinum Lemming:
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Make ‘em lead silver and platinum, all looking identical with the only difference being how much was paid for ‘em.
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Silver and Plat look the same to me
Gold looks like piss
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Honestly not to me. They've always felt like...
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When it was just reddit gold and it was just for server costs I thought it was okay, but they had to make a bunch of different ones as well to the point they lost all meaning.
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Attendance trophy.
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awards = cool
awards that increase visibility, comment rank, other pay2influence = no likee
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good point!
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That being said, sorting by awards was kinda useful. Except do away with reddits ridiculously specific ones. Keep it to stuff like Gold, Helpful, Hilarious.
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No, please no! That goes so much against the spirit of the Fediverse and FOSS!
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How so?
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We[^1] have custom emojis[^2] instead
.[^1]: Those of us on Lemmy 0.18.0 [^2]: Easier to type inline images, really. There isn't anything emoji about them
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OMG that's awesome!
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I once got Inciteful Post of the Day.
No, that's not a typo.
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What did you incite?
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Basically Jordan Peterson being an asshat.
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Did it? I never got the point.
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I remember Reddit in its early days (it was founded in 2005). The conversations were intelligent and I participated in a lot of them. When they introduced karma, I noticed that people were using it as a badge of honor. People started posting shitty one-liners to get upvotes, but those posts had no meaning.
So I started posting less and less. Lemmy/Kbin reminds me of the early days of Reddit, and I hope it stays that way.
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Karma farmers, then they sell to advertisers or political entities, pushing an agenda.
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The problem was that you had to have a certain amount of karma to post in some subreddits.
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