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Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Didn’t Reddit gold start as just a user-run bot, that kept a tally of how many times it had been invoked for any particular recipient?

And then Reddit forced the bot to retire so they could offer a paid version. And now they’re retiring their mandatory replacement. Good job Reddit.

[–] sijt 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That’s what’s great about all these companies. They take credit for, and try to derive value from, things they didn’t actually create. Reddit keeps on talking about “their” data that was created by users, for free, and moderated by other users, also for free. Yet it’s somehow theirs and they can sell it?

Twitter didn’t invent hashtags. They were user created annd eventually incorporated in to the service.

These services add very little value, but they believe they add it all.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Capitalizing off the backs of Community

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What they're good at is seeing trends kind of late and then making everyone believe they invented them. They're quite good at that. Most would call that a grift.

What they should be is platforms and tools for people to interact, with some controls to prevent Nazis and MRAs from ruining things for everyone.

[–] whofearsthenight 5 points 1 year ago

Lol twitter didn't even invent calling it "tweets", @ mentions, retweets, etc. Like reddit, most of product development past the very basic idea came from the community.

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

Hashtags were invented by the Twitter community. And the @ sign account linking was invented by Twitter third party apps, which Elon musk killed

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