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

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        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

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

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

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              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.

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