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.
People who think they’re replacing it with crypto place your bets here!
laughs in Lemmy/Kbin
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
did they just… k kk kill a source of… i in income!!!
They have something worse up their sleeves
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That stuff also costs next to nothing to maintain. Thus proving that spez is even more stupid than we already thought. Now he’s just getting downright hitleresque, a comic book villain lmao
Please don’t dilute Hitler by referencing him for something as trivial as removing gold awards.
One sent millions to the gas chamber with the specific goal of committing actual genocide. The other? No longer lets you waste money to bro-5 a meme post. Be better.
I’ll use any references I like, it’s a free country
You want to look like an idiot, be my guest.
And if you want to continue to monitor the internet policing, looking for ways to virtue signal while looking like an idiot, please continue.
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.
the moment boost for lemmy launches. bye bye reddit.
You stayed on Reddit after boost stopped? I just couldn’t force myself to use that shitty app. Not judging there are things I would definitely like to use it for but can’t stand that app.
You can patch boost to work again with Android 10+ though there’s a tutorial somewhere thinking of using that for things I can’t yet find here
yeah, im just soldiering on. the official app is a shitfest though and i hate it.
Not only is it a shit fest but I’ve noticed that now they’ve taken one out of Twitter and Facebook’s playbook and on mobile all search result content just directs me to download the app which is really irritating. I refuse to even download that shitty app.
Fortunately on mobile I was able to open desktop version to read an old article I needed but on computer iirc I couldn’t get it to display anything even though I was already on the desktop version.
Every change they’re making is pissing off the user base, spez must be wanting to clean it up and sell to advertisers ir something
Have you tried mastodon?
Fun fact: you can view and post lemmy posts from mastodon
Lemmy is basically an implementation of mastodon, I thought? I prefer Nostr because it is more censorship resistant but the community isn’t quite there yet.
Is spez trying to beat Musk’s record for number of strategic blunders made while running a tech company?
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.
the lengths people will go before installing adblocker
most Reddit users use the official app now, so an adblocker is pretty much useless there
(+ the vast majority don’t know how to use an adblocking proxy on their phone)
