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Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards (www.businessinsider.com)
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Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.

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[–] Chriszz@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Amazing. Really does sound like they’re trying to sabotage the site now.

I was thinking about it; Lemmy could technically implement a system of gold on its own e.g can give one award a month after hitting a certain karma level or something to siphon more Reddit users.

But a lot of people on this site seem to not want normie Reddit users flocking here and my personal expectation is that people here would not care for awards. So whether they flock here or not will likely depend on how fed up they get.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Feels like Elon bought Reddit and we just haven't heard about it yet

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I prefer to think that it's all coordinated by real life Bond villain (and Musk's old business partner) Peter Thiel. He failed at setting up competing Twitter platforms, so he got Musk to buy and tank it. After seeing how effective that was they roped in reddit's owners to undermine that as well.

[–] axtualdave@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's not forget the Saudi royal family. They really hate social media.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Definitely not. Here's the breakdown of the $44 bn purchase:

  • $5 bn from other investors, including a Saudi prince
  • $26 bn from Elon, underwritten by stocks in Tesla (which significantly dropped in value after the purchase)
  • $13 bn in a loan that Twitter took out to buy itself on Musk's behalf.

Twitter could hardly pay the interest on that $13 bn, even before Musk tanked the company's revenue. Either Twitter steps into line and gets more investment from right wing control freaks, or it dies - both could be seen as a win in the eyes of Peter Thiel or the Saudis.

[–] vimdiesel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

don't you mean billion?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I did, thought I'd edited out all the "mil"s hah. Thanks, fixed now.

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