I just install Reddit official app to see watch they offer. And holy cow. They are selling NFT-like stuff.
Instead make a better app, they give use this.
I never knew about this and, as others said, they may have been doing this for a while, but I’d say OP still has a point when they said:
Instead make a better app, they give use this.
This is the sort of thing they work on instead of their shit app. They’ve had years to improve that app. Longer than NFTs.
They want everyone to use their shitty app so yours forced to see the avatars of other posters, thus subliminally making you want an avatar to “fit in”
When I used infinity all you saw was the username of who made a post or comment, and the content they posted itself. You don’t need avatars for reddit, its an anonymous website(for now)
And also ads. They also really want people to see unavoidable ads
They didn’t even give app developers the option of showing Reddit’s ads.
Well yeah, like I said, they (read: spez and tencent) are pursuing quarterly rapid growth over viable long term solutions. But instead they are burning their business
And copying and idolizing another guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing at the former birdsite.
At least Zuck knows when to shut up.
In the few months before the end I kept seeing people inexplicably complimenting other people’s avatars. I wasn’t sure what that was about until this, and now I wonder if they had people intentionally doing so to make others jealous or something.
They bought a perfectly good app, Alien Blue, and threw it in the trash.
I’m still amazed at how they somehow seemed to make it actively worse.
So many companies do this. Attempting to get quick sales boosts quarter by quarter while avoiding doing anything sustainable because it doesn’t generate instant profit. It’s one of the worst effects of the investor-first way of doing business
they did this already for a longer while, yes. that’s why most people stayed away from the offical “app”
Didn’t they already long sell NFT avatars?
They did pretty much since nfts exploded in popularity.
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Unfortunately it wasn’t just rich idiots, but any idiots with disposable income. Only the rich million-dollar NFT garbage made the news, but plenty of “normal” folk lost money with the junk too.
Yeah they made a page for them at https://nft.reddit.com/ back in 2021.
Jesus christ, having such an avatar would make me delete my account in shame. Especially if it also told people that i was into nfts at the same time.
Yes
Kinda don’t see what the big deal is. Probably best use for “unique” goods. Dunno if they use blockchain because as I’ve understood it that’s just a resource hog.
But selling users unique avatars? Don’t see the appeal and they are fugly and seem dumb but like that’s so inoffensive nothing burger.
The avatars also have a visual effect to them next to comments.
I think people don’t like this at all not just because NFTs bad, but also because it changes reddit more and more from the website it used to be for commenting on articles & images into crypto social media.
I can’t confirm the visual effect, never saw that on the website. But all NFTs have a hexagonal form, whereas normal avatars have a circle.
I think I just got cancer from looking at that screenshot
My phone has a virus now.
Not news. They already did since nfts exploded in popularity. Also they did give away free avatar nfts since then for some events.
Weren’t nft avatars being sold for like months now? I remember them being cyberbullied and banned on mass from 196 (which is extremely funny if you ask me)
It takes a special kind of stupid to spend money on these…
They already did such thing with the avatars ( they were buyable and “Marked” as nfts )
Redditors with avatars deserve to be cyberbullied.
It’s like they are trying to get rid of users. I had seen the nft on the browser version ages ago but all of this is the reason why we preferred 3rd party browsing experience. Instead of fixing reddit they took that away
Yeah I looked at this screenshot and thought, I don’t know who their target market is, but it’s clearly not me.
Makes sense they would actively try to drive us away, so all their bandwidth is going to whoever the hell would give them money for these ugly puctures.
If you don’t think of it in the context of Reddit’s bullshit, the idea of having special avatars that you have to pay for as a form of monetization isn’t the worst thing imo. As long as it doesn’t negatively affect users and isn’t on top of other predatory forms of monetization.
The only way I can see to do it is either stripping long-standing free functionality from other users, or making it completely pointless.
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True, a nice horse armor is not that bad if at a decent price, but it’s after that you have to be careful to not exaggerate and drift off in waay worst, although I couldn’t pay for something like that personally
Love lemmy for being able to turn off avatars.
On Lemmy all the avatars are free.
opens trenchcoat hey, I got some of those copy & pasted nft pics for cheap. you in?
Hello fellow Vietnamese. Great to see you here.
How do you know he’s Vietnamese?
Currency in the image
Well spotted. I’m curious if there are some Lemmy Vietnamese communities now
Not quite the same thing, but the desktop version of the Fediverse Observer site (which you can also see on mobile, if you ask your browser for the desktop version of the page) lets you filter by language and by country.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
One lemmy server is registered as using Vietnamese language (in Germany).
https://keylog.zip/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=Active
That has only two comments, neither of which seem to be Vietnamese.
One lemmy server is registered as being in Vietnam.
https://voltage.vn/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&page=1&sort=Active
It does explicitly say in the description say that it is hosted in Vietnam, and people are clearly talking about Vietnamese stuff (in English), but is low traffic and has only two communities (with tens of subscribers).
There are no kbin servers presently registered as using Vietnamese language or as being in Vietnam.
My theory is Musk is trying to bankrupt Twitter quickly so he can minimise his losses, after his impulsive ego finally had some consequences. I think Huffman thinks Musk is a genius and is trying to emulate him by pivoting into crypto, to create his own PayPal style pay day.
I also don’t think he’s going to be able to create the perpetual motion money machine he’s expecting, but it’s not like he’s going to go personally bankrupt trying. Graphic artists are a cheap labor business expense compared to the potential gain, and at worst you get your own marketplace out of it.
It would be easy enough to launder cash through such a system that he’ll probably make more money than most will ever own in their lifetime. Even if 99% of it is only ever traded for less than a dollar.
The question I have is whether he’s competent to keep enough users for a long enough time to buy a personal fortified island or just a personal apocalypse fort.
Graphic artists are a cheap labor business expense compared to the potential gain, and at worst you get your own marketplace out of it.
And I wonder if they are even using graphic artists or if they’re using AI generated images.
Wrong social media company that’s imploding itself through terrible business decisions in a race to try to become profitable
They’re both making terrible business decisions, that’s the point.
This is reddit not Twitter and has nothing to do with musk.
Rich techbro social circles are small.
Did you read the comment? Or did you just stop at Musk and Twitter?
