• jmshrv@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t you be able to make awards pointless by running an instance that handed them out without any payment?

      Personally, I hated awards on Reddit and always disabled them in my client.

      • ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The technicalities are above my head but I don’t see how/why.

        1. Couldn’t other instances somehow prevent those awards from displaying on theirs?

        2. Doesn’t make sense to do by someone paying to host an instance.

        3. Wouldn’t everyone have to create users on that specific instance to do it?

    • MysticSmear@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know how it could be implemented across the fediverse. But if they could figure it out I would pay. I was a Reddit premium payer just because I loved giving awards.

      The trick would be making it work across all instances. Because I could see some just opting out and then it would be broken across many different communities.