None of this makes any sense. They're already reworking awards and coins, fine. But why go so far as to remove the ones that already exist?

EDIT: Looks like the code base the awards use is being changed, but... can't they figure out a way to grandfather in the ones that already exist? This is really awful. It really shows how little the team cares for its userbase

May the new reddit die a painful death

Hopefully. What if the reddit CEO does a 180 and goes back on his position? I'm afraid that a lot of people will flood back into the site. Problem is, unless people leave organically and of their own will with the intention to use this site because it's better than reddit, nothing will change.

It's important to support alternatives like Lemmy.world because even if the reddit API is free again, now that reddit is going public, expect a lot of restrictions on content. reddit will die like Tumblr did (avid ex-Tumblr user here, before they effed it up, BTW are we allowed to swear freely here?). And like Digg before it. I'd rather be cut reddit out of my life ASAP so I'm praying a ton of communities migrate here... this is such a simple platform to use