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.
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 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 was at least better when you could see upvotes and downvotes instead of just a universal score. It let you know whether or not something was actualyl somewhat agreed with even if the majority didn’t like it.
I really hope that Lemmy will never have it. Karma destroyed Reddit.
it kinda did yeah…awards were fun though
Awards on lemmy would be a great way to subsidize server costs.
100% want this.
^Mother fucker^… *Digs out wallet
The eye shines make it look wall-eyed.
Now I can’t unsee it.
This is cool what program did you use to make it?
Thanks! It was just from Midjourney.
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.
The technicalities are above my head but I don’t see how/why.
Couldn’t other instances somehow prevent those awards from displaying on theirs?
Doesn’t make sense to do by someone paying to host an instance.
Wouldn’t everyone have to create users on that specific instance to do it?
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 made a mockup:
Silver Lemming:
Gold Lemming:
Platinum Lemming:
Make ‘em lead silver and platinum, all looking identical with the only difference being how much was paid for ‘em.
I love how these images are massive. I think you should be able to pay more to make your awards occupy more pixels.
Silver and Plat look the same to me
Gold looks like piss
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!
How so?
We[1] have custom emojis[2] instead
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Those of us on Lemmy 0.18.0 ↩︎
Easier to type inline images, really. There isn’t anything emoji about them ↩︎
OMG that’s awesome!
I once got Inciteful Post of the Day.
No, that’s not a typo.
What did you incite?
Basically Jordan Peterson being an asshat.
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.
Karma farmers, then they sell to advertisers or political entities, pushing an agenda.
The problem was that you had to have a certain amount of karma to post in some subreddits.
It was at least better when you could see upvotes and downvotes instead of just a universal score. It let you know whether or not something was actualyl somewhat agreed with even if the majority didn’t like it.