The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

We all know this is happening with Reddit gold, however I thought it would be relevant to point out that there has been fallout amongst Reddit Premium subscribers.

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  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    Ironically you’d need something like a cryptocurrency if you wanted to implement something like that for the Fediverse.

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Generally speaking the solution to these sorts of things when one doesn’t want it is “then don’t use it.” That’s especially true in a federated, decentralized system like this.

        • esty
          3·
          1 year ago

          yeah but this is the specific kind of engagement bait and whatnot that can stay on the corpo social nets

    • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      Why? I mean, technologically, why couldn’t a more standard payment platform work, and then just pass around those payments among instances? PayPal is not crypto, but you can use it almost anywhere online.

      • FaceDeer@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        PayPal is not decentralized. None of the “more standard” payment platforms are. If you want to have some kind of cross-instance limitation on things like awards and not have instances be able to just spew them out willy-nilly if they want to then you’re going to need some kind of decentralized ledger to track them authoritatively, and that’s basically cryptocurrency in a nutshell. This is what cryptocurrency is for.