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.
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.
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.
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.
I really hope that Lemmy will never have it. Karma destroyed Reddit.
Did it? I never got the point.
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.
it kinda did yeah…awards were fun though
Honestly not to me. They’ve always felt like…
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.
Attendance trophy.
awards = cool
awards that increase visibility, comment rank, other pay2influence = no likee
good point!
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.
No, please no! That goes so much against the spirit of the Fediverse and FOSS!
I once got Inciteful Post of the Day.
No, that’s not a typo.
What did you incite?
Basically Jordan Peterson being an asshat.
Awards on lemmy would be a great way to subsidize server costs.
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.
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.
^Mother fucker^… *Digs out wallet
This is cool what program did you use to make it?
Thanks! It was just from Midjourney.
I made a mockup:
Silver Lemming:
Gold Lemming:
Platinum Lemming:
Silver and Plat look the same to me
Gold looks like piss
100% want this.