Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.

Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.

  • @T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    With how Lemmy works, it might be a little complicated. Especially since the payment information would need to be federated, and there would be a lot of complications depending on the region the server was hosted in.

    • @Chreutz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Yeah. Giving awards would probably be limited to comments/posts that are on the same instance as your user.

    • @muzzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Honestly I wouldn’t want anything baked into the protocol, but I can see people donating small amounts to the instance hosting a worthy comment if there was a simple enough way to do it.

      Cryptocurrencies were supposed to enable that, but I think we are still a long way away (no, lighting does not qualify).

    • @rbar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Given the work by the guys behind podcasting 2.0 it would be interesting to see the fediverae adopt boosts backed by sats / the lightning network. It seems like they solve a lot of the same problems. You need a common currency people can freely transfer in small amounts to support content they like and the infra they are hosted on.

      Here is an article by one of my favorite podcasts that have gone all in on boosts.