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Gutotito ,
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Was anyone actually spending money on that crap?

GrossGhost ,
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Yes haha. Constantly. I wouldn't be surprised if they're happy to be rid of the type of user who would move to the fediverse anyway. Maybe that was their plan all along.

EricKendrick ,
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Yep, and was proud to - let me support Reddit and good contributors.

I wonder if the exodus of people like myself brought this on - the drop in awards given may have been significant indicator or less engagement, so needed to muddy the waters?

zalack ,
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Yeah, I bought gold a few times. I had no problem with "this content was so good it inspired me to give back a little to the free service we're all using."

I wouldn't mind some equivalent for the fediverse honestly. Let me donate to the home server of a user who's comment I thought was especially good.

I know you can donate directly, but I do think there was something about also making another user's day that felt good about the Gold system. The service gets some fuel in the tank and the comment author gets a little boost to their mood. It was nice.

I agree it got way too out of hand when they moved beyond Gold though.

FuckFashMods ,

Reddit used to fund all their servers with it and had a gold goal.

itscozydownhere ,
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Yeah the same that buy skins in games

But honestly, good. It’s those people that keep the stuff free for the others

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