Makes sense to remove things that people can boycott. They have a graph on someone’s computer where income from awards points straight down. That looks really bad for potential buyers so it’s better to remove it and claim the dip was intentional.
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Awards are nothing in value. Awards could be used for harassment.
I see the “follow twitter” business model is proceeding.
“We’re having cash flow issues? What should we do?” “I know! Lets cancel the one thing that we’re doing that people are just giving us money for!” “Brilliant!”
Implementing changes on announcement (or lack thereof), with no warning or transition period, is entirely Elon-esque as well.
Its a good decision but man, the execution is horrible.
Horrible execution seems to be the common definition in everything they do.
In a vaccum, yes but the way reddit is talking and acting makes me think that it’s taken the same cyinide pill only fans almost took and the one tumblr and imgur took
What is next, I really wonder…?
Changing name to Fuckit?
What is next, I really wonder…?
Changing name to Fuckit?
Rejecteddit - as that’s what a good chunk of the former userbase has done by now.
Nah. It should be called Blue-it, which they have
Or Suckit, which spez definitely should.
This will be related to the recent news that there are plans to pay contributors for posts. Will update with a link when I find it…
It’s good that Reddit did this today because the memes on the fediverse have been extremely good lately. Reddit Remainers checking it out will find a fun, active community
Here, please enjoy this lemmy lemon award 🍋
You’ve been authorized to post on c/lemonparty 🍋🥳
🍋 🍋 🍋 What a time to be alive! 🍋 🍋 🍋
If I was more paranoid, I’d say that the fucking stupid bean meme bs that happened right when the Reddit api shut down was awfully convenient for Reddit.
The beans lasted all of like three days. It was hardly a problem
Beans are a solution, never a problem.
If anything, it reminded me of early Reddit.
I agree. Early Reddit was pretty shitty though. A totally different kind of shorty than it is now, but best reddit was shortly after subreddits.
I thought it was very redditesque
Bean memes are a tradition in shitposting meme groups, its to be expected
I thought it was hilarious and made the community feel fun and alive, which Reddit hasn’t felt like for a long time.
Yeah, Reddit just doesn’t feel good anymore for me. Lemmy does.
It’s bean o’clock
(link)B E A N S E E A A N N S S
I upvoted everyone I saw with PRIDE! It was dumb and hilarious. The things that modern internet silliness were founded on.
Wonder how that’s going to work with this
I cannot image how shitty it will get with bot farms contributing and upvoting AI generated shit for people too dumb to know they’re being fed BS.
Well, with many of the site’s top contributors having left, much of the more informative content can then be written by Reddit’s own AI. Throw in a few bot upvotes for visibility and watch the tips come in from the remaining people who don’t have a clue what’s going on.
I could see that bringing in revenue. That’s money straight from the users into Reddit’s pocket.
The worst part is that some generated AI looks exceptional, so bad actors posting it without saying it’s AI art would trick most people, anything for engagement I guess…
Sounds like my Facebook feed.
Why even involve users? Bots posting AI generated stuff. Upvote bots upvote, comment bots comment and repost bots repost. Its the ciiiiiircle of life…
Can’t wait for all of reddit to become identical to r/SubredditSimulator
Based on the language where they say there is something coming in the future, I would bet it’s that system.
They want to invalidate all existing awards so they cannot be used to give people money under the new system and likely also remove the premium feature of getting awards for free.
People who want to reward content creators will pay for premium and awards instead of just premium now.
I don’t disagree. I’m not sure how that generates revenue for Reddit though. Unless it’s their attempt to capture content creators like YouTube. Or is it more like an onlyfans type idea where people pay the creator personally through the system and they system just takes their cut.
Eh. Whatever. I’m no longer on Reddit. It I’m mildly entertained by the drama.
In the coming months, we’ll be sharing more about a new direction for awarding that allows redditors to empower one another and create more meaningful ways to reward high-quality contributions on Reddit.
I wish I had some better alternatives for the Ukraine related content, because the magazines & communities here are definitely not sufficient, and I’m not going to get Telegram and dig through all of that garbage.
Let the Ukrainian mods know to get over here.
If anything we’d need the submitters. And as I’ve said already, I don’t have any accounts anymore.
Ok. I know other mods have rapidly moved everything lightning quick (see Piracy). It just takes a nudge to help them do it.
Doesn’t Al Jazeera keep up their content on Ukraine pretty well? I seem to remember they did. I could totally be imaging it too.
I’m talking about actual combat footage, not news articles.
Have you seen this?
https://kbin.social/m/Ukraine_UA/t/201465What about it?
Lots of Ukrainian posting
Okay first of all you posted a link to a thread, and secondly I know that there’s Ukraine magazines & communities. But as I already stated they do not fulfill my need for actual combat footage and recent happenings.
Ok, I’ll stop sharing anything I find with you. Best of luck, hope you have a good one
Prime kneejerk reaction.
Well, I never paid for Reddit, but this must suck for people that did it.
First, many don’t appreciate the clutter from awards
“Hide Awards” in settings?
It’s almost like they’re allergic to working on their app.
I’ve never seen this be an issue for anyone.
I hated the clutter and many people mentioned it when they talked about 3rd party apps being killed.
I’ve now seen one person complain about it.
I only used 3rd party apps to navigate, so it was never an issue.
Sounds like R×ddit’s solution for a barking dog is to run it over with a steamroller.
People tend to not like ui clutter. It’s a universal sentiment outside of this discussion. NFT style monetization and clutter can get fucked. RIP to the garbage. Best move they’ve made in years.
I mean, sure, but…
— gestures vaguely at the rest of the entire site —
I use a minimal UI 3rd party app that behaves and looks just like Apollo did. No clutter. It’s exactly how I like it.
Not surprising considering what it is. I’ve seen people claim that the API is quite bad, to say it nicely. Can’t imagine the app’s code to be much better :)
They literally bought out one of the best apps, brought it in house, and actively made it the worst app. It’s almost amazing how consistent reddit’s management failures have been.
They developed a GraphQL version of the API like 5 years ago… then marked it as “internal”, obfuscated it, and didn’t let anyone access it. Except the official app.
Not disagreeing but I hated the stupid awards. It was one the things I hated most about the official app.
Hate to beat the dead horse but Apollo had that
So did sync. You could hide awards completely, display them all, or have it just show that the post had been awarded, but no detail on what the award was.
Keep bringing it up. It’s clear that Spez was annoyed and offended by Apollo and we shouldn’t let him drop the topic.
Apollo automatically refunded everyone for the money they had spent for a full year. Reddit isn’t doing anything at all. It says a lot.
I browse on old.reddit and used unlock to block .awardings-bar a long time ago. It’s amazing how much nicer it is not seeing all that junk.
They could have fixed the clutter and still accumulated money. They’re really bad at business
They could have fed ads through the API instead of shutting down clients. They aren’t very smart over there.
They could have required 3rd party apps to sell Reddit Coins and Avatar NFTs in order to use the API.
Reddit has recently become allergic to taking Ws as well.
If I was a VC, I would want a glut of ad-sensitive, lowest common denominator users. Think your Aunt on Facebook, or your sister on VSCO, or your young nephew on TikTok. I don’t think those people are necessarily attracted to the overall community attitude(s) currently on Reddit.
I would never call the ex-Hacker News/Digg Redditors smart. But.
Those users do have certain proclivities that make them EXTREMELY unattractive to investment dollars. Strong interest in anti-mainstream topics, including the 3Ps (Privacy, Piracy, and Pornography) doth not good ROI make. This exodus of users and elimination of features, outside looking in, seems like a misstep. I’d be skeptical.
That 3P hits too hard haha
I’d have a hard time believing that anybody still on reddit isn’t like that.
Very true. It seems like a solid plan to flush the current users and replace with more gullible ones.
Very often in such schemes the old users leave and the new ones never come.
With the collapse of social media, there’s not going to be many new users to claim.
NO WAY HAHAHAHA
I really wonder what @ChristianSelig thinks of this
@1chemistdown lol
lol! Just tell me where in fedi you’re making the next app and I’ll be there and actually pay money for this time. Although I’ve tipped and purchased schwag, but I’ll buy the app.
They are making it easy to move here.
