[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Samsung phones just sucks.

Switched to fairphone and could root it without installing twrp, there was only one extra app and I could just disable the google apps and switch to foss ones.

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The life is strange games. The great storys combined with the superpowers are an absolute blast!

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lemmit.online mirrors subreddits.

Thoigh Hopefully we have enough original content in a few months so we dont have to mirror content anymore.

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Free awards are the ones ones spammed on random posts so if awards are added, they should be paid only.

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Letting users decide where the money goes to is much better yeah.

I think they should be able to set percentages. See here: https://lemmy.world/comment/1068820

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly I think awards are a decent way of determining the quality of a post. If a Reddit post has a lot of awards it's a sign that it is especially helpful/interesting. I know there are exceptions and sometimes the flood of awards at the top of the post is annoying, but often it works for determining the quality.

So people will aim to make posts of similar quality to get awards as well.

Karma on the other hand is too easy to get so its leads to shitty reposts to get a lot of likes. But the people don't give awards to reposts that often.

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is a reason many YouTubers sell discord roles. Many people are willing to spend 5€/month for a stupid discord rank, so I don't see why it's wrong to profit of people willing to buy awards

If you prefer direct donation, having something like awards won't stop you but if someone wants to buy that overpriced sticker, they can as well.

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with @tigr@lemmy.world : Giving the user the power to decide where the money goes to is the best option. This eliminates the need for a centralised account with a system to spread the money, which would definitely lead to a lot of arguments.

The user could select something like 20% lemmy devs, 30% instance of community, 50% instance their created the account on. This way the user can decide who gets their "donation"

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I can understand the mindset, but I worry most people don't think like this.

The thing is, that small rewards for "donations" will likely make the people much more willing to spend money in the first place. Even if it's as small as a sticker on someone else's post that costs the servers involved like a handful of API calls. But when a 1€ award is 3x as popular as the 1€ donation, it will greatly increase the funds available to the instance and, hence better servers, more features etc

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Fact is, the Lemmy ecosystem needs money to handle the growing server reqirements as more people migrate as well as the development cost of new features (I know Lemmy is OSS but the devs should still get some compensation for their effort).

Seeing how much some reddit users love awards so much that they cant stop giving money to Reddit to award posts protesting the api change, this could be a great way for users to voluntary support the ecosystem. It can be easily ignored by users not caring about them (clients could even add an option to hide them), but users liking the feature can go wild and this time the money goes to volunteers keeping this alive instead of greedy admins, power mods and investors.

Though there would be some big organization questions attached: attached:

  • Which server handles the payment? A centralized one, the one where the post was made or the one where the user giving the award account was created.
  • How will the money be shared between the Devs and the individual instances in a way that is fair but cant be abused easily.
[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Im so glad we didn't loose the humor in the migration !

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know. Havent used it for years so I didnt realise it expanded outside the browser.

[-] lesnake@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

notates username in case i need an account somewhere but am too lazy to create one

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