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I think it’s very on-brand for Reddit to announce that they are removing a feature without having a replacement ready for primetime.
Why on Earth would you announce this now when you’re not ready for whatever is coming next? It’s like they are purposely trying to kill Reddit.
I’m only half joking that I’m expecting Mark Zuckerberg to announce a new app called “Links” next week that looks suspiciously like Reddit, because this pattern is starting to feel familiar.
And he’ll claim it’ll be part of the Fediverse at some point probably, until the regulators get off his back and he can start stealing eyeballs again (which is an unusual hobby but the super-rich are strange creatures).
I think if anything they’re just seeing how little the bad press actually affected their bottom line and are deciding they might as well get through more bad press now so that it all muddles together.
Gold was always dumb. Why spend money on upvotes.
The fact that people actually ever bought it (and said thank you for it) was super weird to me.
Gold used to be a great way to support Reddit covering its server costs back when the admins were focused on sustainable operation rather than maximising profit
It was a way to support nice and friendly website back then, sort of like donations
Guess they’re running out of their monopoly money
Also why does the title of this post look like clickbait 😅
Literally never bought an award on Reddit in 12 years.
Let me bust out the smallest violin.
Good for them. I think driving yourself head first into the pavement is something all companies should try to attract new buyers.
It’s probably going to be some kind of Reddit cryptocurrency.
So they have a bunch of users that have been freely paying them money for virtual coins that you can literally only use to display a few pixels of a gif next to a comment.
Their absolute genius move towards profitability is then to forcibly stop making these people give them free money and also erase those virtual coins that they spent money on with absolutely no compensation whatsoever. Not even a shitty award or literally anything at all.
It’s funny, I’m not sure if I should actually be impressed that they are not engaging in any marketing dark pattern whatsoever; they are just straight up alienating the people who were until now been practically giving them money for doing nothing.
I don’t give a fuck.
Wait, you not only can’t give awards, you also can’t give fucks anymore?!
Reddit Latinum it is. Quark would be proud.
My thoughts: I don’t care! I am very happy with Lemmy and Kbin, so not going back there, thay can do whatever!
Looks like Steve is a big boy, and doesn’t need any help with ruining his IPO.