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Read all about it at the above link. There's way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.

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[–] [email protected] 442 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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?

[–] survive 346 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also an odd statement from a company that just strong armed a bunch of communities into either conforming or having their leaders replaced.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

Almost like they’re creating the problem in order to sell the “solution”

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

Or just retroactively removing awards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FYI, this isn't exactly news, it's been publicly announced over a year and a half ago. I'm not a fan of what Reddit's doing either, but after reading this comment section I feel like this needs to be put into perspective a bit.

[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Holy shit.

I did not expect the next wave of new users on Lemmy to be happening this soon.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

Poor Lemmy servers.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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)

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Batten down the hatches mateys. Tharrr be a storm brewin' ☠️ 🏴‍☠️💀

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well in January I believe they told third party app developers that they weren't going to charge for the API this year (but that someone was in the works). Then May I believe is when reneged on that? June? I know the charging went into effect on July 1.

In May/June Spez said that old Reddit wasn't going anywhere. So we can extrapolate ~October for them to announce it's ending, and then it being killed by the end of the year.

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

I’m still using Old Reddit so the second it goes down you’ll definitely be hearing about it, at least from me 😉

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Photon is really amazing. I hope it gets the support and attention it deserves

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

Same

Oh well, can’t wait for the all new people to come here

[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Guys, you missed the block chain boat, this isn't going to save your IPO

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They'll do something with AI in 3 years or so, if they still exist.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Y’all heard about that Web 2.0 thing?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Although I'm not in any way aware or alive when that was happening back then - that ".com bubble" blast I think? - I surmise that was a real crash-and-burn phenomenon, McKinstry's "CR6" internet show being one of its casualties, despite its significance in online emergent media history.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Dot.com bubble was web 1.0. Big centralized sites like Reddit are web 2.0.

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

Isn’t anything post dot com bubble considered Web 2.0?

So we’re still in Web 2.0, or when was the cutoff?

The dot com bubble was late 90s, early 2000s, tons of companies went under. Lot of jobs and VC money lost. People had to rethink how they could monetize, stop a lot of advertising scams, and what was really worth investing in that might return a profit.

[–] tabarnaski 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a few months all content in Reddit will be AI generated

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Spez has been jonesing for redditcrypto since 2016.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well yeah how else is he gonna pay for his jailbait cp

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

With their servers always going down I assume they won’t mine this thenselves. I bet they push that load out onto user clients lol.

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

right? Blockchain is so 5 years ago

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

What are you talking about? By the way, could I interest you in some GameStop stock?

[–] toadster5 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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