I’ve got a few reddit coins from when someone gave me gold. Is there a way I can fuck over reddit or promote the fediverse using them before they time out?
Go on I’ll bite….what now???
No more awards and such, I guess. It will be terminated in September. I came across some screenshots of people attempting to get a refund, explaining that they had purchased so many Reddit coins that they couldn’t distribute them before the shutdown. Meanwhile, here I am, observing individuals who possess more wealth in Reddit coins (which hold no real-life value) than I have to buy food for a year. We truly live in a strange world. I don’t know why they decided to get rid of it, but it does seem odd, especially considering there are people who even “whale” within the Reddit community.
Earning money for digital worthless stuff is not profitable
They also deleted all chat logs prior to this year.
They’re removing free coins and awards to replace it with something new they’ll announce later.
Reddit verified. 10$ a month and you get the privilege of sending reddit your id card, so they can link all your posts to your real world identity.
New Currency will be called “Spez Coins” to honor the inventor of Reddit, our glorious leader that will lead us to the future!
/s
Can someone explain to me why them removing these awards is pissing people off? I used reddit everyday for 13 years until all this shit went down. Never once cared about gold or whatever. Why does it disappearing matter to people? Just because they like to flex having it?
If they’re removing a revenue stream it can only be because they’re going to replace it with something worse.
Because they are going to create a coin linked with crypto, which is going to give money to people for using Reddit. I like that to be honest. The problem is that Reddit has never figured out how to tell if someone is a bot or not. If bots were bad before, they’ll totally dominate Reddit now. So Reddit will probably release a way to verify you’re human, which ties you to your identity, or to captcha the hell out of posting.
Anyways, for people thinking Reddit doesn’t already know who you are, I invite you to read about online fingerprinting. It’s almost impossible not to giveaway your identity nowadays. You’d have to follow guidelines that would make browsing pretty awful.
https://www.howtogeek.com/735535/what-is-browser-fingerprinting-and-how-can-you-block-it/
It’s literally the opposite of that lol, they’re making changes that they know will be tolerated by 90% of the user base
