I just install Reddit official app to see watch they offer. And holy cow. They are selling NFT-like stuff.
Instead make a better app, they give use this.
I never knew about this and, as others said, they may have been doing this for a while, but I’d say OP still has a point when they said:
Instead make a better app, they give use this.
This is the sort of thing they work on instead of their shit app. They’ve had years to improve that app. Longer than NFTs.
They bought a perfectly good app, Alien Blue, and threw it in the trash.
I’m still amazed at how they somehow seemed to make it actively worse.
They want everyone to use their shitty app so yours forced to see the avatars of other posters, thus subliminally making you want an avatar to “fit in”
When I used infinity all you saw was the username of who made a post or comment, and the content they posted itself. You don’t need avatars for reddit, its an anonymous website(for now)
And also ads. They also really want people to see unavoidable ads
They didn’t even give app developers the option of showing Reddit’s ads.
Well yeah, like I said, they (read: spez and tencent) are pursuing quarterly rapid growth over viable long term solutions. But instead they are burning their business
And copying and idolizing another guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing at the former birdsite.
At least Zuck knows when to shut up.
In the few months before the end I kept seeing people inexplicably complimenting other people’s avatars. I wasn’t sure what that was about until this, and now I wonder if they had people intentionally doing so to make others jealous or something.
So many companies do this. Attempting to get quick sales boosts quarter by quarter while avoiding doing anything sustainable because it doesn’t generate instant profit. It’s one of the worst effects of the investor-first way of doing business
They didn’t neglect it, it’s shittyness is exactly as they intended it.
they did this already for a longer while, yes. that’s why most people stayed away from the offical “app”
Didn’t they already long sell NFT avatars?
They did pretty much since nfts exploded in popularity.
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Unfortunately it wasn’t just rich idiots, but any idiots with disposable income. Only the rich million-dollar NFT garbage made the news, but plenty of “normal” folk lost money with the junk too.
Yeah they made a page for them at https://nft.reddit.com/ back in 2021.
Jesus christ, having such an avatar would make me delete my account in shame. Especially if it also told people that i was into nfts at the same time.
Yes
Kinda don’t see what the big deal is. Probably best use for “unique” goods. Dunno if they use blockchain because as I’ve understood it that’s just a resource hog.
But selling users unique avatars? Don’t see the appeal and they are fugly and seem dumb but like that’s so inoffensive nothing burger.
The avatars also have a visual effect to them next to comments.
I think people don’t like this at all not just because NFTs bad, but also because it changes reddit more and more from the website it used to be for commenting on articles & images into crypto social media.
I can’t confirm the visual effect, never saw that on the website. But all NFTs have a hexagonal form, whereas normal avatars have a circle.
I think I just got cancer from looking at that screenshot
My phone has a virus now.
Weren’t nft avatars being sold for like months now? I remember them being cyberbullied and banned on mass from 196 (which is extremely funny if you ask me)
Redditors with avatars deserve to be cyberbullied.
They already did such thing with the avatars ( they were buyable and “Marked” as nfts )
It takes a special kind of stupid to spend money on these…
If you don’t think of it in the context of Reddit’s bullshit, the idea of having special avatars that you have to pay for as a form of monetization isn’t the worst thing imo. As long as it doesn’t negatively affect users and isn’t on top of other predatory forms of monetization.
The only way I can see to do it is either stripping long-standing free functionality from other users, or making it completely pointless.
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Reddit had a few events where they gave away free NFT avatars. Some people even managed to sell them.
True, a nice horse armor is not that bad if at a decent price, but it’s after that you have to be careful to not exaggerate and drift off in waay worst, although I couldn’t pay for something like that personally
Not news. They already did since nfts exploded in popularity. Also they did give away free avatar nfts since then for some events.
It’s like they are trying to get rid of users. I had seen the nft on the browser version ages ago but all of this is the reason why we preferred 3rd party browsing experience. Instead of fixing reddit they took that away
Yeah I looked at this screenshot and thought, I don’t know who their target market is, but it’s clearly not me.
Makes sense they would actively try to drive us away, so all their bandwidth is going to whoever the hell would give them money for these ugly pictures.
Love lemmy for being able to turn off avatars.
I’m not even able to turn them on actually
This is like their 4th collection, selling them for a while. Crypto Twitter doesn’t care about them.
What currency is đ?
Vietnamese Dong
Vietnamese Dong 🥵
How many Dongs do you need to be happy?
Those nft avatars are cringe
On Lemmy all the avatars are free.
Nobody better copy the sloth or I’ll be real mad.
