1y ago

Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious

mashable.com Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious

The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

We all know this is happening with Reddit gold, however I thought it would be relevant to point out that there has been fallout amongst Reddit Premium subscribers.

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Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious

mashable.com /article/reddit-gold-coins-awards-system-remove

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what I take from this, though, is that even with the anger against Reddit, there’s no talk of leaving in the comments on that post!
you hate the site and all of their changes so much and it’s only been getting worse… why do you stay? even the content is already worse, and even worse on the subs that have the new Reddit tipping system… why stay?
#reddit #lemmy #fediverse #kbin
- the new Reddit tipping system
  I haven't heard about this tipping system. ELI5?
  
  https://www.reddit.com/community-points/
  Edit: holy fuck no one told me it was a blockchain cryptoshit??? That's even funnier 💀
  
  Put anything to a vote
  Run weighted polls to make big decisions in your community, like getting input on rules changes or deciding how to distribute Points.
  Unlike regular polls, these polls give a larger voice to people who have contributed more to the community. The more Community Points someone has earned, the more weight their vote carries.
  This will end well...
  EDIT
  What they're really looking for are a bunch of whales to drive engagement.
  
  Call me a cynic but I suspect the biggest 'contributor' to r/product will end up being product's marketing department account, likewise with r/country and party-political apparatchiks. The move is elegant in a way: Reddit Inc can ruin true democratic operation of subs by turning subscribers into shareholders (which wards off repeats of mod activism) and simultaneously provide further cover to astroturfers (lots of points = Time and Effort™ = good faith actor).
  
  Oh, absolutely this is the case. Reddit could even run bot accounts to gain a lion's share of points for any particular sub they want to control, thereby stifling any sort of protest or activism authorized by sub vote.
  
  I see you edited your post. That'll be 2 CrYpToBuCkS!
  
  I will give you 2 shiba inu coins (worth $0.00001574).
  
  Aw shit, look out Elon, here I come!
  
  Ironically you'd need something like a cryptocurrency if you wanted to implement something like that for the Fediverse.
  
  good thing we don't want it
  
  Generally speaking the solution to these sorts of things when one doesn't want it is "then don't use it." That's especially true in a federated, decentralized system like this.
  
  yeah but this is the specific kind of engagement bait and whatnot that can stay on the corpo social nets
  
  Why? I mean, technologically, why couldn't a more standard payment platform work, and then just pass around those payments among instances? PayPal is not crypto, but you can use it almost anywhere online.
  
  PayPal is not decentralized. None of the "more standard" payment platforms are. If you want to have some kind of cross-instance limitation on things like awards and not have instances be able to just spew them out willy-nilly if they want to then you're going to need some kind of decentralized ledger to track them authoritatively, and that's basically cryptocurrency in a nutshell. This is what cryptocurrency is for.
  
  Ew
  
  Yeah it's been enabled on the crypto reddits for a while... as a result the subs overwhelmingly changed to "vaguely interesting and/or attention-grabbing but ultimately useless with a race to see who's first" posts, signal-to-noise ratio got way worse.
  
  Who could've called it? Never saw that coming
  
  Hahahah jesus christ
  
  It’s beyond parody at this stage.
  
  the snoos having hair is the real crime against humanity here. who the fuck asked for snoo to be memoji's? what is going on over there?!
- The article comments are linked to Reddit, if you click on "Replies" it routes you to the topic on Reddit where there are posts about leaving the platform.
- I've got enough reason to believe that any mentions of Lemmy, are met with shadow banning.
  And like the master of gaslighting that it is, it doesn't happen all the time, but often enough to deliver a chilling effect.
  They want the dissenters to leave without a word.

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