Read all about it at the above link. There’s way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.
Community Points are the first step towards a better future for online communities. In order to be truly independent from platforms like Reddit, communities need to be owned by their members in ways that platforms cannot take away. With the advent of blockchain technology, we now have a way to establish this freedom in a decentralized and secure way.
The way to be independent of Reddit is by having a token on a blockchain maintained by Reddit?
Also an odd statement from a company that just strong armed a bunch of communities into either conforming or having their leaders replaced.
Almost like they’re creating the problem in order to sell the “solution”
Holy shit.
I did not expect the next wave of new users on Lemmy to be happening this soon.
Poor Lemmy servers.
New LemmyFediverse boi since the Great Purge; this is seriously happening again, already? Glad I got out when I did. Compared to the old place, experiencing and interacting with Lemmy is like a calming dip in the Great Link (not a Changeling honest)
Yeah same. There are a couple of communities over there that I kind of miss, although one or two of them have been recreated on Lemmy basic nobody posts on the yet, or they get continually brigated.
I need to check out the other servers though. Lemmy is just so far superior to what Reddit was in how it’s fundamentally designed.
Me neither. How long till old.reddit.com goes away? That was supposed to be the next big spike in the Lemmy growth curve.
I can’t believe I read that whole thing. I take that back, I can’t believe Reddit actually thought this was a good idea and put it out into the world.
At least we got some better mobile apps now. Hopefully Photon gets replaced as a front page on more instances too. That’d get a lot more people to stay.
Photon is really amazing. I hope it gets the support and attention it deserves
Same
Oh well, can’t wait for the all new people to come here
Guys, you missed the block chain boat, this isn’t going to save your IPO
They’ll do something with AI in 3 years or so, if they still exist.
In a few months all content in Reddit will be AI generated
*weeks
Spez has been jonesing for redditcrypto since 2016.
Well yeah how else is he gonna pay for his jailbait cp
right? Blockchain is so 5 years ago
What are you talking about? By the way, could I interest you in some GameStop stock?
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Yeah, it does look like this has been around for a bit.
https://www.reddit.com/community-points/ has at the bottom “copyright 2021”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunityPointsHelp/ has posts from 2 years ago.
Why is this being posted as if it’s new?
Haven’t community points been a thing for a long time? I recall you used to be able to buy/donate points to your community to open up features (like getting to post emotes in replies, which is just aggravating more than a ‘perk’, and ensured I never participated).
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Today’s online communities are not like this. They are trapped inside apps and platforms, where they do not have independence or control anything of value.
That’s hilarious, when they literally just trapped users in their app and killed 3rd party apps.
In case anyone’s confused about what this is all about:
$5/month per community
It’s easy to miss, but they snuck in that Special Memberships (subreddit subscriptions, which unlock badges and emojis and stuff) cost $5 a month per subreddit, outside of Reddit Premium. You can also spend 1000 Community Points, but if you don’t have the balance and want the benefits, you’ll be giving reddit money.
It feels like reddit has come to understand how much closer redditors feel to their communities than reddit as a whole - reddit is hated, but users still cling to their communities. A sitewide Reddit Premium badge is irrelevant, even repugnant and a badge of shame, but special flairs and features in close knit communities are still desirable.
This is reddit exploiting their users’ relationships with their communities with a stackable 5 buck alternative to Reddit Premium.
Probably the only smart thing Reddit has done all year. All you have to do is invent some sort of perk for a community and put it behind a monthly paywall. Make it a pooled system with a goal and peer pressure will get you more subs. Discord has been making bank on this concept for a while now.
If they can leverage subreddit tribalism, it might have even have more potential than Discord, which isn’t nearly as interconnected. Or it would have, if they hadn’t hitched this to the blockchain.
spez pulling off an elon lmao
Per subreddit?!
ROFL. 🤣🤣🤣👒
Man I remember back in the day when somebody bought me in Argentinium award. I shit a brick when I found out how much that thing cost.
I got a few thousand points to spend on awards, but I never would spend money on an app like that. Such a rip off.
“It is time for communities to break free of walled gardens and take ownership of their existence online.”
So, literally the fediverse ?
Yeah, the first section made me expect they were going to say “Which is why we’re shutting down and recommending users migrate to Lemmy”.
Of course it’s some crypto bullshit for investors.
my instant thought as well
Almost. Substitute dictatorial control for independence, and you’ve got it!
Ironic coming from Reddit.
Reddit is talking about decentralization and stuff like that like they aren’t a centralized platform themselves. Giving control to the community, but remember if we don’t like what you’re doing with your communities we’ll threaten your moderation team!!!
Complete corporate happy-go-lucky fake unawareness, gaslighting, no shame, but even feels like they are just saying this to humiliate the people who understand what it really means and banking on the memorilessness of their cattle…is there a word for this?
this is all intentional
LMAO ITS BLOCKCHAIN
we called it, reddit goes fucking crypto bro
Everybody knew the second he started talking to Musk. Burn it down to chase off everyone but the farthest right whose only concern with a platform is not getting banned for the n word, then load it up with buzz words they don’t understand but will worship anyway.
Haven’t they been crypto bros for years now? The Avatars have been blockchain NFTs for a hot long minute.
I thought it was an announcement about Fediverse/ActivityPub integration. Blockchain is so 2021.Edit: Nvm looks like it IS from 2020/21. Title is misleading.
communities need to be owned by their members in ways that platforms cannot take away.
uuuuh
They are trying to win us back by… gaslighting.
Hey, no baby, I didn’t just ban some mods because they refused to do what I said, no way baby, I respect you too much for that! Now, you’re going to stop dating that lemmy guy and come back to me, right? You know I love you. You know I would never ban a subreddit unless they broke the site wide rules, right? You need me, you know it’s true.
Glad I got out of that toxic relationship. The new girl feels a lot like the ex but at least she belongs to everyone in the room ! hell, uh… yea
Oh the irony 😅
we now have a way to establish this freedom in a decentralized and secure way
they have shown us that their goal is profit, not user experience, you can never believe them
Apparently, this has been around for ages:
May 28 2020: https://consensys.net/blog/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-reddits-new-blockchain-based-community-points/
May 15 2020: https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/gk0x6g/could_the_admins_please_explain_this_community/
IA History: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.reddit.com/community-points
Discussions of proliferating it and fantasies about the resulting weird exploitation it will enable have occurred as well:
March 17 2023: https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11tv5vz/when_community_points_are_introduced_to_other/
July 16 2023: https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/151fg8h/which_subreddits_need_to_be_the_next_to_get/
Apparently, they also tried to do this before, almost 9 years ago:
https://www.engadget.com/2014-12-19-reddit-notes.html
https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/19/reddit-announces-redditnotes-a-way-to-share-equity-with-readers/
https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/20/7427491/reddit-notes-announced-give-5-million-dollars-to-users
https://slate.com/business/2014/12/what-reddit-notes-are-their-history-and-future.html
https://old.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2pt25f/announcing_reddit_notes/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/5fyaec/what_happened_to_reddit_notes/
https://www.fortune.com/2015/01/30/reddit-notes-is-not-going-to-happen/
Kinda puts things in a new light. Ruining the site has always been the plan.
ah, this explains why there’s almost zero hubbub about it on reddit right now.
“It is time for them to take back ownership and control.” Funny that this is coming from Reddit. Actually more like ironic.
In order to be truly independent from platforms like Reddit, communities need to be owned by their members in ways that platforms cannot take away.
Is this a fucking joke
Reading this: are they implementing ActivityPub?
Blockchain
Oh sweet lord, no. No, they are not.
Someone at Reddit had Blockchain missing in their buzzword bingo for 2023, I swear.
I think that’s their point, to sound like the Fediverse but is actually a different way for them to get money and control the narrative. They’re also possibly trying to take away shutting down shitty sites “by giving the communities control.”
Yeah, it is. It’s nothing new. Here is a post about it from 3 years ago:
I love shitting on reddit as much as the next guy, but I don’t think they are actually implementing this.
So they want to claim they are like Lemmy, but without doing what Lemmy does. Got it.
I’m sorry but this is some dystopian bullshit that’s all centred on the false premise that communities are anything other than the people who choose to count themselves among them and engage in them.
Reddit is just the tool some communities chose to use to gather their members and communicate. That’s it. If a community decides that Reddit is no longer the appropriate tool for the job, they can leave and build their community elsewhere. That may be a bit of an oversimplification, given the resources and tools those communities might lose through the transition, but strictly speaking, Reddit can’t do anything to stop the members of any particular subreddit going elsewhere, and a cryptocurrency absolutely is not going to fucking facilitate the ownership or mobility of a community.
It’s a bullshit form of control that they want their users to willingly bind themselves to. Suddenly you’re not just participating in a community, but you’re genuinely invested, tied to something with a perceived monetary value, that even if you can theoretically remove from Reddit and take elsewhere, won’t have any more value than people choose to place on it, and won’t represent the community that generated it in any meaningful way.
It’s literally “Hey, the more you use Reddit, the more of our crypto you’ll earn, which could be worth more than zero one day! You better keep using Reddit, huh? You wouldn’t want to lose that potential for more than zero eh? In fact, why don’t you encourage more people to use Reddit too? Then they’ll generate their own crypto, and the more people use our crypto, the more it’ll be worth for everyone! See, if you get five more people to use Reddit, and those five people also get another five people each to use it etc etc etc…”
The fuck out of here.
I love how they talk about community independence yet Reddit can come in at any time and remove the mods if they don’t like the content those communities are producing
This reads like shit. it starts off with this ground breaking tone, then its just crypto bs? and then the article just ends abruptly. The fediverse is the solution to the problem theyre talking about not some shitcoin. sheesh
For now, Reddit will cover gas costs for distributing Points to users and allowing them to spend Points on features such as Special Memberships.
Spez: “We are not profitable”
This is where Spez is spending money. Not on making the App/UI/UX better, but on crypto scams lol
