Reddit brings back its old award system

Cool, now do the API and I’ll consider not actively avoiding your website.

I won’t. They’d have to fire Steve with no golden parachute, then maybe.

Just let things die is my opinion. It’s much nicer here.

Nicer in many ways but also less active. I find myself posting a shit ton more just to make the activity I want to see. I made probably less than 50 posts on Reddit in my 11ish years before I left. Now I make that many every 48 hours

Agreed, Lemmy feels like “the old net” in the most refreshing way possible. I haven’t touched Reddit in over half a year and I feel better off for it. Feels like I can actually be myself here instead of trying to walk on eggshells to be part of the hivemind.

Just imagine if all Reddit moves here if it dies.

I don’t really care how much Steve gets out of it, I just want a not-terrible platform. So I’m cool with a golden parachute if that’s what it takes to get rid of him and get someone better for the platform.

That’s not happening though, so I’ll just avoid the platform.

I don’t mind him having golden parachute- it is heavier and most likely won’t open.

Golden-plated cement boots, dropped from above the Mariana Trench.

And they also have to let people use a VPN. And make UI load faster, it’s way too bloated.

I tried going back for a while, but when I couldn’t connect on VPN, I left again.

So they can train openai on your comments? No thanks. Its done for good IMO.

The AI companies will do that shit on Lemmy also. At least there isn’t a far-right Nazi getting money on our user generated content tho, unlike reddit.

The profiteering and shitting on the community is what got me to remove my content and account. As an owner of the platform, they cant have it both ways.

They’re going to do that regardless, they’ll just scrape instead of using the API.

I want an open API so I can use third party apps. I’m totally fine with them requiring an API token or something with a sensible rate limit to limit abuse by parties like openai (they’ll have to go through a sales contract).

The fediverse is an excellent place to find training data for AIs. I would just set up a bot that follows a bunch of people and let them send their data to me, then I don’t even need to bother with scraping.

The fediverse arguably has more bots, just not trying to hide the fact

Nah, too late. Now that I’ve finally migrated to the fediverse, I’m staying here.

Not even the API. Just a usable page that doesn’t feel so broken and bloated.

Did they switch off old.reddit.com in the end? That was the only useful front-end on desktop.

Nope, that is still there, RES still works as well

Sort of, you no longer can sign in or create an account without using the new site

I’m done for good, myself. Moved to Lemmy and there are far fewer dimwitted Nazis here.

Users who had their coin balances removed will be given silver turds.

I hate the fact that I’m only about 90% sure you’re joking.

I’m not. It’s in the article.

Damn, they just can’t miss an opportunity to insult their users, can they?

Poe’s law hits hard sometimes.

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BotW gave a gold turd as their “fuck you” reward, but reddit is too cheap even for that.

So, while awards are coming back, the phrase “thanks for the gold, kind stranger” is still effectively a retired piece of Reddit history.

Reddit is a retired piece of Reddit history

beloved features — like the ability to “gild” posts by donating a Reddit Premium subscription — are not returning.

That was like more than half the point of gold. Some random comment getting lots of gold would mean the recipient, in turn, could give out gold too.

Now…

Yeah, like the point wasn’t a “here’s how much i like it” it was “here’s a reward for providing such good content”. I would never give someone this, but old gold, maybe

“great, I got upvoted by reddit “blue” subscribers…this is so special :/” energy

I’ve got all the awards we need right here.

Lemmy Bronze: Hitting the little star on the post.

Lemmy Wooden Nickel: Upvotes

Would be nice if authors could see the amount of stars their content has.

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