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Realized another - the awards that reddit created were out of control. I didn't mind avatars too much since customization can be fun and it was optional, but the awards are spammed and shown on most reddit clients.
I actually support awards here with the option of hiding them, i think it'd be a good, relatively ethical way to monetize lemmy.
funding is better than monetizing a platform
I agree, but as far as monetization goes, this is one of the most harmless methods.
It could be in cool (in the future) to have a donate button instead, so to support users who are posting great content
On the other hand, donating to lemmy should be separate (the way it is now) and not a cut of those donations to users
I always thought it would be cool if awards meant something, like a donation to an NGO of the userโs choosing (from a list of 20 or so to reduce complexity). Lemmy could be one of the options but not the only option (like it was for Reddit) that the money would go to. I feel like more people would buy and give awards if that were the case.
Like integrating a PayPal/ Kofi tool kind of?
I felt the move of making reddit silver a real award was a big shift. Newer users don't even get why reddit silver was a thing.
I do like the idea of optional visibility - awards certain;y don't have to be bloat/bad.
I remember Reddit Gold being controversial when it was new.
Reddit Silver being an award just completely stole all the magic out of it. It was a cute little memey way to show support and make fun of Reddit Gold and then it got turned into a way to put more money in Reddit's pocket :c
Agreed, to an extent. As long as they can be disabled so they don't clog up your feed, awards are a decent way to show your support. The problem with Reddit was they started to put far too much focus on useless awards and avatars, and not on actually improving the user experience.
Yeah no matter what they end up signifying (if they come at all), they should 100% be able to be hidden. Yet another pro of Apollo ๐
Yeah thatโs a really good point. Maybe a portion of the award funds for a given post could go to that postโs creatorโs server and a portion to a pooled fund for all servers/servers reaching capacity?
Of course this and any other ideas re monitising should be carefully thought out re perverse incentives ๐ฌ
Awards were fine when there was only three of them: gold, silver, platinum. Once they added twenty billion, all meaning the awards once had were lost, especially since many of them were given to users for free when they were once paid only.