Read all about it at the above link. There’s way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.
Community Points are the first step towards a better future for online communities. In order to be truly independent from platforms like Reddit, communities need to be owned by their members in ways that platforms cannot take away. With the advent of blockchain technology, we now have a way to establish this freedom in a decentralized and secure way.
The way to be independent of Reddit is by having a token on a blockchain maintained by Reddit?
Also an odd statement from a company that just strong armed a bunch of communities into either conforming or having their leaders replaced.
Holy shit.
I did not expect the next wave of new users on Lemmy to be happening this soon.
New LemmyFediverse boi since the Great Purge; this is seriously happening again, already? Glad I got out when I did. Compared to the old place, experiencing and interacting with Lemmy is like a calming dip in the Great Link (not a Changeling honest)
Yeah same. There are a couple of communities over there that I kind of miss, although one or two of them have been recreated on Lemmy basic nobody posts on the yet, or they get continually brigated.
I need to check out the other servers though. Lemmy is just so far superior to what Reddit was in how it’s fundamentally designed.
Me neither. How long till old.reddit.com goes away? That was supposed to be the next big spike in the Lemmy growth curve.
I can’t believe I read that whole thing. I take that back, I can’t believe Reddit actually thought this was a good idea and put it out into the world.
At least we got some better mobile apps now. Hopefully Photon gets replaced as a front page on more instances too. That’d get a lot more people to stay.
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Yeah, it does look like this has been around for a bit.
https://www.reddit.com/community-points/ has at the bottom “copyright 2021”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunityPointsHelp/ has posts from 2 years ago.
Why is this being posted as if it’s new?
Today’s online communities are not like this. They are trapped inside apps and platforms, where they do not have independence or control anything of value.
That’s hilarious, when they literally just trapped users in their app and killed 3rd party apps.
In case anyone’s confused about what this is all about:
$5/month per community
It’s easy to miss, but they snuck in that Special Memberships (subreddit subscriptions, which unlock badges and emojis and stuff) cost $5 a month per subreddit, outside of Reddit Premium. You can also spend 1000 Community Points, but if you don’t have the balance and want the benefits, you’ll be giving reddit money.
It feels like reddit has come to understand how much closer redditors feel to their communities than reddit as a whole - reddit is hated, but users still cling to their communities. A sitewide Reddit Premium badge is irrelevant, even repugnant and a badge of shame, but special flairs and features in close knit communities are still desirable.
This is reddit exploiting their users’ relationships with their communities with a stackable 5 buck alternative to Reddit Premium.
Probably the only smart thing Reddit has done all year. All you have to do is invent some sort of perk for a community and put it behind a monthly paywall. Make it a pooled system with a goal and peer pressure will get you more subs. Discord has been making bank on this concept for a while now.
If they can leverage subreddit tribalism, it might have even have more potential than Discord, which isn’t nearly as interconnected. Or it would have, if they hadn’t hitched this to the blockchain.
Per subreddit?!
ROFL. 🤣🤣🤣👒
Man I remember back in the day when somebody bought me in Argentinium award. I shit a brick when I found out how much that thing cost.
I got a few thousand points to spend on awards, but I never would spend money on an app like that. Such a rip off.
“It is time for communities to break free of walled gardens and take ownership of their existence online.”
So, literally the fediverse ?
Reddit is talking about decentralization and stuff like that like they aren’t a centralized platform themselves. Giving control to the community, but remember if we don’t like what you’re doing with your communities we’ll threaten your moderation team!!!
