• mrchuckles@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    would it be a good idea to have comment/post rewards like gold/silver etc. where the proceeds go to help fund instances?

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      So… it could work. But that’s not going to be consistent, and the federated nature of things like Lemmy makes for some weird structures. Can you give rewards across instances? What if one instance has “gold” at $1, but another has it at $0.50?

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          That starts running into a few issues. It’s high friction (“You mean I have to enter card details every time I want to do this on someone from a new instance?”) and it has some serious risk of disproportionate impacts.