Perhaps this is a dark thought... but I'm wondering what the future Lemmy equivalents to "We did it Reddit!" or "Thanks for the gold kind stranger!" will be.
It seems like something cliche or corny always springs up, like it's unavoidable.
Honestly, I'm sure that joke is going to get extremely old as time wears on, but right now I always chuckle. Creepy stories is c/lemmyscareyou now. Adorable.
Literally was given gold on Apollos goodbye post after I thanks Christian and said fuck u/Spez. I had to edit it and tell people to stop spending money on gold. It defeats the fucking purpose.
It could be leftover credit that people are using up. There's a fair bit of it floating around, giving awards used to give points too so it's hard to say if anyone actually gave them money to give the gold.
I had over 15000 Reddit coins when I cancelled my premium subscription last month. I’ve had it since they handed out years of premium when they killed Alien Blue. When it ran out I decided I enjoyed paying for no ads and still remembered when they’d tell you how much server time you paid for and would announce all the new servers coming online that came from gold users.
Anyway I used to get a kick out of spending my coins on people who hated it. I handed out more than a few in June, but it was money already spent.
Many people had coins/points left over from back when they were giving them out for free. I gave my last free gold to people who suggested kbin as a matter of fact
See also:
"I'm not crying you're crying!"
"This!"
"Wow this really blew up! Thanks everyone! <insert cheesy/cringy speech about being the main character in their life for 5 seconds">"
I have thought about, what if we set up a similar gold system that donated money to the Lemmy software, and the instance owner to help cover costs? I'm sure we'd collectively ruin it though.
I think this could be a good idea. As Lemmy gains traction it will get more expensive to maintain an instance, grossly so for the "main" instances. People can donate directly, but a reward system could help improve donations.
Isn’t this how Reddit gold originally was presented? No ads, perks like the lounge, and if I recall right how much server time you’d contributed, along with the impact of daily contributions and etc
Not exactly the same thing but... People are already referring to Lemmy users as "Lemmings" which, yeah it makes sense... But it also has some stereotypes associated with it that aren't what I'd like to be associated with, you know?
I can already imagine it being used in a phrase with something about jumping off cliffs and being brainless followers and whatnot. Especially with this exodus situation. lol
There actually was some talk about calling each community "c/liffs." Likely won't stick, but, i get where you're coming from.
I think Lemmings in this context feels harmless enough, for me atleast. Anything is better at this point than referring to yourself as a "Redditor"
The Lemmings suicide thing is actually a myth, made up for views by some documentary crew who forced Lemmings off a cliff. I looked the source up a while ago and that is what I found as information. I hope we can restore their reputation so I keep telling people.
I personally like Lemmonites for Lemmy, but I think I'm alone there. Fedditors is starting to catch on and is more inclusive of the fediverse as a whole but I kinda don't like fedditor because it defines us by what we left behind. It's probably the best choice we have out there right now though.
Since Lemmy and KBIN don't have an equivalent to rewards, I doubt there'd be an equivalent to “Thanks for the gold kind stranger!” unless someone makes a Fediverse equivalent to the Old Reddit Silver bot
Random thought related to gold, but I wonder if it would be feasible to make some kind of fediverse tipping system that allowed people to give tips that showed up as something gold-like or award-like. Could be neat, but validating the payment when multiple instances are involved could be challenging without getting instances involved with payment gateways and finance regulations. I'm sure it could be done with crypto but that would probably be offputting to most people.
One month into my home instance’s existence (lemmy.world) and we’ve already had our inaugural hack and a few technical growing pains that broke several mobile apps for days