Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious

Re:Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious by warrenm on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:28AM (#36893149)

Wait - there are people who actually paid for Reddit gold?!

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Re:Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious by brodouevencode on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:58AM (#36893603)

Imagine owning a non-tangible asset that you cannot feel or touch.

But then again I live in the US with a fiat currency, so there's that.

(this comment was meant to be highly provocative)

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Re:Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious by warrenm on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:07AM (#36893773)

so ... you'd say fiat currency is a real-world version of NFTs?

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Re:Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious by brodouevencode on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:09AM (#36893807)

A cotton and linen version of it, yes.

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Re:Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious by Shawnj2 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:39AM (#36895233)

People used to do it as a way to support server costs and browse ad free when the site was far smaller, or a way to award people who did things you liked (I received gold once for telling people about a good offline Reddit app I found by the author who was happy to see his app mentioned on the site and used).

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Re:Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious by warrenm on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:45AM (#36895333)

I've been on Reddit for (checks profile...) 12+ years

Only "awards" I ever received (or gave) on Reddit were in the 'freebie' category :)

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Re:Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious by Shawnj2 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @11:47AM (#36895368)

It still wasn’t a super common thing so I’m not surprised. What about mold?

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