• taanegl@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I think Reddit gold can be benign, but let’s not exploit FOMO plz. That’s how we got loot boxes and micro payments.

    How to do “Reddit gold” on Lemmy, in a non-exploitive and ethical way? That would be the rub.

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      8 months ago

      The real danger isn’t on Lemmy.World, where I think the money would go where intended. The real danger is incentivizing people to spin up small instances in the hopes of collecting.

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        8 months ago

        That won’t work. I have 340k users on my servers and it just covers the running cost. So with a 100 user instance you would get peanuts.

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          8 months ago

          I guess the cross server implementation would be difficult. If you buy credits on lemm.ee, and gild a lemmy.ml user, who honors it to… not show you ads?

          I guess it’s mostly just a decoration thing to support the comment/post and the server. Still, which server displays which awards could get thorny.