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.
My only worry is that it really got out of hand….it enabled Reddit to be incredibly shitty to users but still at bare minimum getting income from awards.
I saw some idiots giving out awards to spez during the AmA….like what.
I’d be suspicious about any account interacting positively with spez. But I digress.
But also one got reddit coins whenever someone gilded your comment. So a lot of awards were given by people who never paid. Can’t tell if that was a smart move or not… but every award I ever gave was free.
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.
OHHH YEAHHHH!
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.
My only worry is that it really got out of hand….it enabled Reddit to be incredibly shitty to users but still at bare minimum getting income from awards.
I saw some idiots giving out awards to spez during the AmA….like what.
I’d be suspicious about any account interacting positively with spez. But I digress.
But also one got reddit coins whenever someone gilded your comment. So a lot of awards were given by people who never paid. Can’t tell if that was a smart move or not… but every award I ever gave was free.
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.
Silver and Plat look the same to me
Gold looks like piss