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[–] Sentinian@lemmy.one 147 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just fyi to prevent misinformation, reddit disabled buying coins when they announced it was being removed. So all these points are leftovers

[–] cat_in_socks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 year ago

Also due to this people are even more willing to give out awards, since reddit announced that all coins will be removed from your account after September.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 87 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lots of them are likely leftover points due to the deprecation of awards.

[–] Guildo@feddit.de 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never understood why people spend money on reddit. It's fucking stupid.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

They used to give out awards to gift daily to encourage people to use the official app. You could also give out gold if you got several gold. I never spent any money but did give out awards.

[–] Cube6392 8 points 1 year ago

Reddit premium did make the website more enjoyable. I'd never buy it for myself, but I gave it to a couple of friends over the years and the thought additionally was similar to me paying donations to Beehaw: wanting the website hosting the communities I participate in to keep existing

[–] Niello@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why is it being deprecated? I thought it's a major income for them.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because Huffman and Musk are apparently (no, I'm not making this up) good buddies who share tips on how to run social media companies.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By "run" do you mean "destroy"?

Yes, that was the joke, I was being facetious.

[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess they are going to roll something else out to replace it

[–] Niello@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me guess, NFT or something blockchain related.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Doesn't Reddit already have NFT avatars?

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because the owner wants a bland social media with no soul.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awarded - apparently I have gold points there for some reason, and an IM saying they're about to be removed.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

If you ever receive gold or higher you get some coins + premium membership for some days. I don't know if it is still applies.

[–] zeropublix@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Basically 99.99%

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 year ago

And they misspelled CEO. Fucking achievement right there.