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Awards. I know they were just a source of revenue for the corp, but they could also fund (donate to) the user’s instance receiving the award. Hell, they could also be set to donate to specific causes, selected by instance admins. The admins could give their users input on which causes to support, if the admins chose not to accept the funds themselves.
They could be optional to enable, and provide no special treatment or experience that the user would receive. They could even be not traceable per user, outside of admin consoles, which would make them useless as a way to accumulate internet points.
I’d bet there would be a good amount of folks that would take part in such an experiment. Instances cost real money to maintain, and making a sort of game of it might provide more donations than a simple “donate” button.
I’m sure there will be people who are vehemently against this idea, for privacy or who else knows reasons. There could be a way to scam money somehow, but if it was optional both as a way to give and receive by instance admins, there would be ways to kill it if necessary.
My ego demands more. Make it bigger, daddy.
i think it’s kbin that has “reactions”, which are basically the same thing with no cost. i do think a donate button is most likely a better idea for the people who frequent this king of site.
If kbin has it, mbin could have it. I f9rgot if it has, as in my time with an mbin account was very short. But piefed definitely has it.
I only ever got gilded two or three times on Reddit, but I remember the first.
Someone posted “I have been streaming a lot of Ice Cube lately.”
I replied “You can’t stream Ice Cube. That’s just water.”
This sounds far too complicated to be practical. If you want to fund an instance then do it direct. You don’t need to game it.
I can also already see the hordes of ridiculous edits to posts “Edit: thank you for the award kind stranger”. 🤮
I never understood those comments on Reddit. Like, it sent you a message which you could reply to to thank the person directly. Why then also edit in thank you kind stranget into the comment itself? Always felt so performative and like you’re making fun of it imo.
Doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult to do, and I just about guarantee that instances would receive much more in the way of donations if it were a simple click below a post or comment to do so. The whole settings and options don’t have to be a thing.
I don’t think you’re appreciating what you’re asking. Payment processing and holding and distribution for a decentralized, non standard platform crossing arbitrary worldwide borders is among the most difficult things that could be implemented. Then you have to get buy in from hosts. Not happening.
Why are you taking such time to shit on an idea that is obviously not going to be implemented? Are you the lead developer?
It does come across like shitting doesn’t it. Wasn’t my intention. I apologize.