I somehow suspect someone at that shell of a company is experiencing a delightful amount of schadenfreude
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Would be interesting, but I'm not sure how you'd implement it in a federated system unless each instance sets up payment platforms. And it wouldn't stop instances from giving them out for free
That would really be great. For 2 dollars a month, you get one free daily award. That alone would solve the server costs.
there are all kinds of interesting ways to help monetize these servers, i am def a fan of discord style "extras"
Could just give supporters a badge or something, haha
I like the concept of awards because it's a nice way to
However (this might be controversial), I'm not a huge fan of meme awards. Reddit kind of incentivizes people to write meme responses which kind of pollutes threads. Maybe we can dial back a bit on that.
Honestly I agree. I think Gold was enough, though the extra meme awards probably bring in quite a bit of money