The company said it’s golden upvote system “missed the mark.”
    • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      145·
      7 months ago

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

        • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          125·
          7 months ago

          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

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            29·
            7 months ago

            Same.

            I’m not a huge fan of lemmy, but I do like it better than what Reddit has become. If I had to pick today’s lemmy or Reddit from 5-ish years ago, I’d go with Reddit every time. But that’s not the options in front of me, so I stick with lemmy.

            I also post a lot, probably too much, because I want to see more content, especially higher effort content. I posted pretty rarely on Reddit, so this is certainly more exhausting to use. However, there’s enough people to make it worthwhile, so I’m still giving it the old college try.

            • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              17·
              7 months ago

              Yea, I just wish more niche communities would come to Lemmy, but most of the interesting ones are actively not tech savvy en mass, and so are lucky to figure out reddit I guess. Or Discord maybe, which sucks as a reddit replacement.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                8·
                7 months ago

                Yeah, Discord is the worst for something where history is useful. It’s pretty decent for chat though, but that’s about it. But even then, I’d rather use Matrix.

            • Jordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
              7·
              7 months ago

              Lemmy might be less active but doesn’t make you feel like every contribution is rewarding someone who actively insulted and disrespected you and ruined something you used to enjoy. Big plus.

          • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
            26·
            7 months ago

            I actually prefer Lemmy because it’s less active. I browse Lemmy’s version of r/All and I have more than enough content to keep me entertained for hours. Plus, when I find a popular thread, I can actually contribute to it and my comments aren’t buried under 10K other comments within a few hours. I feel like I can actually communicate with the community here, instead of shouting into the void like on Reddit.

          • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
            7·
            7 months ago

            Yeah, but I know your username. Because you’re the person posting all that stuff I read. So, thanks ;)

        • KitEnglish
          10·
          7 months ago

          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.

          • spookex@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            7 months ago

            Opposite for me, this place is way more left-leaning and if I comment like I used to on Reddit, the comments easily end up in the negatives

            • KitEnglish
              6·
              7 months ago

              Join a Lemmy instance without downvotes. You can’t be hurt by downvotes if you never see them!

          • crossmr@kbin.social
            2·
            7 months ago

            The best part is the mods who don’t remove posts where people celebrate someone being killed, or suggest someone be killed because they disagree with them. The unfiltered bigotry is really the second best part of the fediverse /s

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        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.

    • Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      7 months ago

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

      • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        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.

        • Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          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.

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        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.

        • Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

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

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        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).

    • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      7 months ago

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

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    7 months ago

    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

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    117·
    7 months ago

    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…

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      7 months ago

      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

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
      22·
      7 months ago

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

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        20·
        7 months ago

        While I’ve never given Reddit a penny, it was totally different back then. In those times, the site was much smaller, and buying gold got you r/lounge access and supported the site. They felt more community oriented and weren’t aggressively monetizing the service. Nowadays it’s like paying for Facebook or twitter, absolutely not.

        • Entropywins@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

          Down to my bones I believe what happened to reddit was the plan all along. Yes back in the day there was more community that we made but it doesn’t change the fact the dbags were, are, and will be steering the boat… that said my first guided comment felt dope and going to the lounge was fun.

          • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            7 months ago

            It’s hard to say. I think it was obvious they planned to use ads and gold to break even, but it took many years to begin monetizing aggressively. Once new Reddit and the app came around, and they started making noise about an IPO, it became obvious.

        • Hubi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

          r/lounge was easily the cringiest community I have ever encountered on reddit.

  • ____@infosec.pubEnglish
    59·
    7 months ago

    Still doesn’t fix the ill will from when they abruptly killed Apollo, in a stupid way that screwed both users and an indie dev who actually cared and had dedicated significant effort to the platform.

    Also, I absolutely cannot wait for when Reddit itself becomes meme stocked. Somehow, both GameStop and AMC are still alive, but the crazies are back, and Reddit seems like an excellent candidate.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      7 months ago

      They don’t care about ill will, they care about money. They made nothing from third party apps and millions from gutting the API and selling it to AI companies.

      • hypnicjerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 months ago

        not only did they gut the API for actual people, they carved out exceptions for “low volume users” to keep the bots inflating activity

        now they’ve literally stolen from the people who paid to support the site in the first place. absolutely shameless

    • demizerone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      7 months ago

      Deleted my 15 year old account. I’m not going to let that weasel spez make $3 a year off my time. I hope something else can take over that is not for profit someday. A reddit like link sharer is important for the health of the Internet.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        I’d delete my account, but then people wouldn’t see my advertisement for Lemmy in my profile. Plus my repeated 'FUCK REDDIT’s.

  • athos77@kbin.social
    58·
    7 months ago

    Oh, they’re being cute with this. You need to pay money to get what reddit is calling “gold” (formerly known as coins), which you can use to give awards with. But one of the old awards you still can’t give is the old-style reddit “gold” (premium). So they want ever more money without even giving the minor account boost you used to get, just for some skin for a comment. Fuck those guys.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    7 months ago

    I almost thought that closing awards, taking the money, then opening awards was a scam to defraud people of their money.

    Then I realized awards was a scam all along.

  • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
    46·
    7 months ago

    Meh, it’s just another publicly traded company now, it’s just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    7 months ago

    Quiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. “Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they’ve kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years”. An unnamed C staffer blurts out “I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let’s just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!”