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 actively make it 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 did this already for a longer while, yes. that’s why most people stayed away from the offical “app”
They didn’t neglect it, it’s shittyness is exactly as they intended it.
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.
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.
Redditors with avatars deserve to be cyberbullied.
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)
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…
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.
This is like their 4th collection, selling them for a while. Crypto Twitter doesn’t care about them.
Love lemmy for being able to turn off avatars.
I’m not even able to turn them on actually
On Lemmy all the avatars are free.
Nobody better copy the sloth or I’ll be real mad.
Those nft avatars are cringe
What currency is đ?
Vietnamese Dong
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How many Dongs do you need to be happy?
My theory is Musk is trying to bankrupt Twitter quickly so he can minimise his losses, after his impulsive ego finally had some consequences. I think Huffman thinks Musk is a genius and is trying to emulate him by pivoting into crypto, to create his own PayPal style pay day.
I also don’t think he’s going to be able to create the perpetual motion money machine he’s expecting, but it’s not like he’s going to go personally bankrupt trying. Graphic artists are a cheap labor business expense compared to the potential gain, and at worst you get your own marketplace out of it.
It would be easy enough to launder cash through such a system that he’ll probably make more money than most will ever own in their lifetime. Even if 99% of it is only ever traded for less than a dollar.
The question I have is whether he’s competent to keep enough users for a long enough time to buy a personal fortified island or just a personal apocalypse fort.
Graphic artists are a cheap labor business expense compared to the potential gain, and at worst you get your own marketplace out of it.
And I wonder if they are even using graphic artists or if they’re using AI generated images.
There’s probably 1 or 2 for quality control over the entire collection, and maybe a little retouching, but I assume it’s largely AI too.
This is reddit not Twitter and has nothing to do with musk.
Did you read the comment? Or did you just stop at Musk and Twitter?
Rich techbro social circles are small.
Wrong social media company that’s imploding itself through terrible business decisions in a race to try to become profitable
They’re both making terrible business decisions, that’s the point.
They’ve been doing it a while. They even gave some free ones away to encourage people to buy more. I actually have some of the free ones because why not. I would never pay for them though
