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submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.

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[-] angelsomething@lemmy.one 141 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

A Lemmy lemon for your good sir! 🍋

[-] 37219@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

Give and you shall receive, one prestigious award for you sir: Lemmy lemonade.🍹

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[-] StealthToad@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I like Lemmy Lemons 🍋

Lemons always bring to mind Cave Johnson’s rant about making life take the lemons back and burning houses down with combustible lemons😌

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[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 117 points 1 year ago

I was hoping we could keep the reddit posts in !reddit@lemmy.ml

[-] thayer@lemmy.ca 120 points 1 year ago

While I agree that user-generated reddit topics are best left to a dedicated community, I also think that published articles discussing the platform are appropriate for any Technology community; no different than Twitter, Threads, or other social media platform news coverage.

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[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

Lemmy should make its own awards.

Award #1 -- Blackjack

Aware #2 -- Hookers

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

In fact forget the awards

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

I like to give out Lemmy Lemons 🍋

I enjoy that they're meaningless and if people find them obnoxious they can just downvote them.

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[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 90 points 1 year ago

did they just... k kk kill a source of... i in income?!?!??!!

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have something worse up their sleeves

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[-] ConfirmingMoose@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago

I think that reddit's "going public" guru squad doesn't want redditors to be able to have any control on what content is pushed to the top of the queue. That is just a guess, though.

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

"We will continue pursuing profit until we are profitable"

-some dumbass

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[-] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Giving someone a reward gives them some Reddit premium, including coins they can spend. Wouldn't be surprised if they relaunch it, in a way where everyone loses

[-] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

I got a message saying I apparently have premium and/or coins, and to use them before they expire.

But, even before the Reddit plague I had no way of even knowing that, because I used old Reddit and RiF.

Anyway, my point is that this change only affects official Reddit app users, and new Reddit users.

So Reddit found a way to take stuff away from the users who weren't directly affected by the third-party app shutdowns.

It's a genius way to make sure everyone is pissed off all at once.

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[-] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

As someone who would never pay for reddit coins or premium, it's still pretty easy to identify with them.

They paid for a product and now it's being removed with no compensation or refund. That's total bullshit regardless of what the product was.

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[-] 1bluepixel@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

I hated the "coin culture" with a passion (hey, look, it's Bill Gates, let's give him tons of paid emoticons he won't care about!), but it's clear this move is part of Reddit's further enshittification. You can bet whatever replaces coins will be even shittier, and I think Reddit's users know it.

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't identify with giving reddit money but I can sympathize with people who were saving monthly coins they paid for. Seriously, it has to be deliberate now. Why piss off your most loyal, paying customers? Is it a test?

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[-] Ducks@ducks.dev 16 points 1 year ago

Yea I think the outrage is or should be directed at removing the already given awards. Just to go and wipe everything is not a great idea

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[-] WiseassWolfOfYoitsu@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Chriszz@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago

Feels like Elon bought Reddit and we just haven't heard about it yet

[-] Chriszz@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I think little piggy spez is an Elon fanboy so it makes sense

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[-] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I have no problem with Redditors flocking over here, but I just don't think online discussions should be "awarded". It just distracts from actual discussion and turns everything into a popularity contest. Leave the karma and point hoarding on Reddit IMHO.

[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

I admit I like upvotes. They provide feedback on whether a comment was helpful. And awards highlighted the most helpful comments.

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[-] carrot@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] BabaYaga@reddthat.com 45 points 1 year ago

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man

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Is spez trying to beat Musk’s record for number of strategic blunders made while running a tech company?

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

Spez idolizes Musk. So he's doing the exact same thing.

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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They were a zero-effort money printer. Why on Earth would they ditch them?

This makes no sense at all even from their perspective.

[-] trachemys@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 1 year ago

They said they are replacing it with something else. I believe more money will be directly involved.

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[-] Uno@monyet.cc 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] 99nights@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Honestly I can't wait for the downfall of reddit. They seem to be constantly pushing away and annoying their users.

[-] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Wasn't that one of the exclusive "features" of the official app. I guess there's no point for exclusive features now.

[-] _donnadie_@feddit.cl 15 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] JuliusSeizure@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] vimdiesel@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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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