in what ways do you think kbin should strive to be different from Reddit?

  • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
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    I liked the idea is having awards or little extras that you can award to posts you’re keen on, but what I didn’t like was that Reddit profited from it

    Something like that here might actually be useful as the money could act as donations for the devs to pay for their time / server fees. At least in that way people are getting something small but contributing.

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      I personally liked the gold-silver awards, but felt like adding million award options really cluttered the UI. But I agree it’s a great way to get some money for server hosting.

    • BlackCoffee@kbin.social
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      This is the thing;

      I don’t mind to pay for services, I don’t mind to pay for extra’s as long as the money goes to the people doing the work and the people doing the work increase or maintain the user experience of said service.

      The whole “you just want free stuff” people were shouting on Reddit is a bunch of balony.

      • Hosting costs money
      • Infrastructure costs money
      • Developing costs money
      • Maintenance costs money

      All the above also costs time.

      So of course it is okay for people to donate or have some monetization possibilities to keep the lights on and getting paid for the work they do so they can make a full time living from it or use it as a part time gig.

      But there is still a difference size rift between the above and trying to monetize every single thing from your platform/user base just because of greed.

      • Andreas@feddit.dk
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        Those are more like Reddit trophies, Reddit awards are the little stickers next to posts and comments (like “Reddit Gold” and “Wholesome”) that users pay to add to comments. It would be interesting to see how awards and payments work with federation.

      • randomperson@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        This functionality is more of an ‘achievments’ than ‘awards’ and is exactly the same as on old version of wykop.pl which kbin interface is mostly based on.

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      I can see that working well as long as awards don’t affect the placement of comments and posts. Have it just show a icon next to the comment or post like a reaction.
      If magazines can have custom award icons that’d add some charm to the feature.

    • Overzeetop@lemmy.world
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      I don’t like the awards but I like the idea of tipping - in a private and indirectly helpful way. Specifically, being able to send a small, “that was awesome” note to the poster but directing the money to the poster’s instance. The problem is that I expect it to be corrupted and monetize servers/instances to generate revenue rather than simply defray costs, which would be a net negative for the fediverse overall.

      In the end i think payment for content in any form will imbalance the system. I’ve already donated to one of my two instances and will do so for the second if the owner starts allowing it (they’re currently not accepting any donations). We should all be responsible enough and just let our upvotes be upvotes.

    • WeDoTheWeirdStuff@kbin.social
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      If it were a way to actively support the site/servers, I wouldn’t mind. This site won’t continue very long without some way to pay for it

    • cat@forum.fail
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      1 year ago

      Maybe emoji reactions, calckey, and a few other 'verse services have it