I’m not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium

I’m not sure if this is well-known or not that they’re pushing it now, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, especially on old.reddit.

  • solidsnake2085@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “exclusive avatar gear” I didn’t even know there are avatars on Reddit. I’ve been using Sync for so long I never knew they added them.

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        1 year ago

        One of the reason why they are killing the api’s. They cannot push you this shit through them.

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      1 year ago

      avatars

      They rolled those out when new.reddit became a thing. Before that people with Gold/premium could customise their snoos but they weren’t displayed on your profile anyway.

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      1 year ago

      That exclusive avatar gear it probably NFT-based, so it can be traded independently of Reddit. (Alhough if you think navigating the Fediverse is hard, try navigating how to transfer and sell those NFTs on a marketplace).

      There are certain subs where they have crypto-based community points, like r/cryptocurrency, based on participation. I have posted there, and have been give some of their token, which is inexplicably worth something.

      Reddit’s foray into crypto has been interesting to watch, and puts me in the position that if I decide to leave Reddit for good, they have given me a severance package. I will be sure to sell every bit of it before leaving, except for one token , which I will carefully monitor to see what Reddit does with community points from deleted accounts.

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        I think the avatars were somewhat of a cool idea, if it was just a character creator. Not a fucking NFT marketplace