I somehow suspect someone at that shell of a company is experiencing a delightful amount of schadenfreude

      • StumblinbearEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Would be interesting, but I’m not sure how you’d implement it in a federated system unless each instance sets up payment platforms. And it wouldn’t stop instances from giving them out for free

        • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          2 years ago

          That would really be great. For 2 dollars a month, you get one free daily award. That alone would solve the server costs.

            • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
              4·
              2 years ago

              I like the concept of awards because it’s a nice way to

              • quickly identify really good comments
              • support the instance in a sustainable way

              However (this might be controversial), I’m not a huge fan of meme awards. Reddit kind of incentivizes people to write meme responses which kind of pollutes threads. Maybe we can dial back a bit on that.

              • StumblinbearEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                Honestly I agree. I think Gold was enough, though the extra meme awards probably bring in quite a bit of money

          • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
            5·
            2 years ago

            there are all kinds of interesting ways to help monetize these servers, i am def a fan of discord style “extras”

  • Stone4D@beehaw.orgEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Digg may be in a cardboard box on a sidewalk but they’re having a great day.

  • EvilColeslaw@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    If anyone is left around at Digg that was there in 2010 then ya know, good for them this week. But otherwise, my god, I pity them.