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I somehow suspect someone at that shell of a company is experiencing a delightful amount of schadenfreude

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Would be interesting, but I'm not sure how you'd implement it in a federated system unless each instance sets up payment platforms. And it wouldn't stop instances from giving them out for free

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That would really be great. For 2 dollars a month, you get one free daily award. That alone would solve the server costs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

there are all kinds of interesting ways to help monetize these servers, i am def a fan of discord style "extras"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could just give supporters a badge or something, haha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the concept of awards because it's a nice way to

  • quickly identify really good comments
  • support the instance in a sustainable way

However (this might be controversial), I'm not a huge fan of meme awards. Reddit kind of incentivizes people to write meme responses which kind of pollutes threads. Maybe we can dial back a bit on that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly I agree. I think Gold was enough, though the extra meme awards probably bring in quite a bit of money

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

6 now with my comment. It's 200% more lively here!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did anyone get a comment from Kevin Rose?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I would love to know what he's thinking right now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Digg may be in a cardboard box on a sidewalk but they're having a great day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not going to happen...but it would be kinda hilarious if the Reddit crap led to a reemergence of Digg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If anyone is left around at Digg that was there in 2010 then ya know, good for them this week. But otherwise, my god, I pity them.