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Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Didn’t Reddit gold start as just a user-run bot, that kept a tally of how many times it had been invoked for any particular recipient?
And then Reddit forced the bot to retire so they could offer a paid version. And now they’re retiring their mandatory replacement. Good job Reddit.
There was at least reddit silver that worked this way.
I thought Reddit silver was just an image a user would post if they were too broke to afford gold.
There was also eventually a bot, before silver became an award.
Well I learned something today.
It also came with a bot
That’s what’s great about all these companies. They take credit for, and try to derive value from, things they didn’t actually create. Reddit keeps on talking about “their” data that was created by users, for free, and moderated by other users, also for free. Yet it’s somehow theirs and they can sell it?
Twitter didn’t invent hashtags. They were user created annd eventually incorporated in to the service.
These services add very little value, but they believe they add it all.
Capitalizing off the backs of Community
Lol twitter didn't even invent calling it "tweets", @ mentions, retweets, etc. Like reddit, most of product development past the very basic idea came from the community.
What they're good at is seeing trends kind of late and then making everyone believe they invented them. They're quite good at that. Most would call that a grift.
What they should be is platforms and tools for people to interact, with some controls to prevent Nazis and MRAs from ruining things for everyone.
Hashtags were invented by the Twitter community. And the @ sign account linking was invented by Twitter third party apps, which Elon musk killed
Waiting for the Lemmy lemon bot so we can award lemons 🍋
If you get three lemons then you get to have a Lemon Party!
What a great idea. Here's a lemon for ya 🍋
Don't lemonade it all in one place 😉
What about combustible lemons? 🍋🔥🔥🔥
I understand that lemon essential oil is flammable.
When life gives you lemons, just say fuck the lemons and bail.
But I like lemons!
oooh lemon party
Are people really upset about it? To me it was always pointless, and the few times I got gold and was allowed to peek into r/lounge it was just full of the most insufferable users (just people that thought they were special because they got gold).
I think the point is more that it's something people paid real money for just to have them rip it away with basically no notice and no replacement.
The benefits of receiving it were meh. But it was a way to show recognition for people and supporting the site. One of the few ways they would even receive revenue, for little to no effort. I don't know why they didn't just lean into it harder.
That story is so common. They destroyed Secret Santa that way. User-run thing that got some traction so they built redditgifts around it, then decided redditgifts wasn’t sufficiently profitable so canned it and took the user-run part down with it.
I will continue to be bitter about them killing secret Santa. It was such a great tradition, killed off far too soon because it "wasn't profitable enough", nevermind that the point of the event is to celebrate the holiday season and the spirit of giving
Didn't it also start off as an entirely user run thing before Reddit admins took over it?
Yes it did. And then they ran it for a handful of years. And then they killed it. Brutally.