Reddit

Corporate centralized social media: advertises "decentralization" through crypto People on actual decentralized social media: "That's the stupidest thing I heard in the last 2 days"

What the fuck is in the water over at the Reddit HQ, lead?

Oh what complete fucking energy wasting bullshit that can be handled by a simple db. Just more corporate buzzword bingo from these jackasses in charge.

I am so glad I made a bet with a friend about reddit being much smaller or dead in 5 years, it just keeps getting better for me.

They should put their money where their mouth is - give out shares of their upcoming IPO for Karma. 10000 Karma = 1 share or something like that. If you thought their system was broken before, just you wait!

If this were written by anyone else, it would read as an absolutely sarcastic and ironically self aware lampoon-esque post

It’s a fucking blockchain. I’m fucking done. That’s it. I’m going to put the Reddit app in a folder and pretend it doesn’t exist.

tl;dr, it's more crypto bullshit and it requires the reddit mobile app.

Sometimes I wonder if the people who work at Reddit have ever heard of Reddit.

Am I the only one that used Reddit till just recently and has no idea what coins or awards are, or what purpose they served?

Missed the crypto craze a bit late there.

Called it. It's crypto.

Wow... You will be much more free... if you pay us...

What.

Lol. What a shit system. Apart from it being not as popular, Lemmy is a lot better than Reddit lmao.

So, they’re saying they’re going to pay people to post and mod, but in a cryptocurrency whose value isn’t listed here? I’ll bet someone’s already coding a whole bot forum to get all the community points.

Oh! So they know most of the people still on their platforms are gullible doom scrollers they can milk with crypto or whatever monetization scheme they want. They know they're scum and are cool with it.

Adblockers should add reddit.com as a shaddy and unsafe link

FUCKING CRINGE REDDIT, FUCK SPEZ, FUCK REDDITORS AND ALSO FUCK EVERYONE WHO STILL USES REDDIT FOR ANYTHING AFTER THIS!

It isn't new, and framing it as though it were seems rather disingenuous.

Archive link from two years ago : https://web.archive.org/web/20211208000349/https://www.reddit.com/community-points/documentation/introduction

so what am i missing? how are these points awarded? just by purchasing them? like the awards? this sounds like some dumb mother fucking shit.

Reddit's hypocrisy is mind-boggling!

After proving in recent weeks that 1) they want anything but free and independent communities, and 2) they want nothing more than complete control over their communities and their data, and 3) they have no interest in being an open platform (where are the 3rd part apps? why force the app when you open Reddit in a browser?), they have the nerve to say all this about freedom and independence?

Who believes it? Is this a way to win back lost users? Restore damaged trust? It's obviously not what they say it's about. Companies don't give away freedom, Reddit least of all. There's plenty of evidence for that.

This seems quite silly.

Community points=CP? Back in my day, CP was something else

I had to keep reminding myself that it’s August, not April 1st. This is asinine.

I got their email about ending the old awards, etc.

I told them to shove what I had up their ass along with their shitty app.

I guess I'm off the mailing list.

IDGAF about fake internet points from people I don't know. I don't need validation.

Lmao the crypto bros on reddit are talking about how amazing this is - fucking morons lmao