A little extra traffic will go to reddit… but fuck them. They’re taking monetary value away from your account, so ya might as well use the coins you have as you see fit (while you still can). Fuck u/spez and fuck reddit
Or… I can simply NEVER use reddit outside of old.reddit and not engage with a feature I never engaged with before. How about that?
I mean, I guess whatever makes ya happy man! Different folks with different strokes or something like that lol
I can’t imagine having paid money for reddit bux.
Eh, people kept awarding me, so I do have a couple left over from all that. Wasn’t gonna use them because that would make me look like a tool, but this idea might be funny enough to sway me
This is my exact scenario and thinking
Why bother? Just leave reddit
Oh, I’ve been gone. Deleted all my accounts except one, and never went back… until I saw that the coins would go away. Figured I’d put them somewhere fun real quick.
Not surprisingly, the first comment on the post I awarded (on r/pics) was a 10y premium account with the most basic-ass response that was “totally not a reddit shill”.
Verbatim, they commented:
“Ok, it’s been weird… but weird stuff is what the place is all about!”
Take from that what ya will, but looks AI generated to me. Doesn’t matter, I’ve been loving bullshitting around the fediverse since the day I joined and have relegated reddit to the level of quora. It might answer some questions if I’m searching for something specific, but I’ll be asking around here first
“Go back to reddit and interact with is some more fellow spez haters” sounds more like a post that was written by a reddit bot shill
I mean… your rational has merit. I don’t really have a way to definitively prove I’m not a “reddit bot shill.” I would assume my grammer, wording, or whatever, would kinda show I’m not a bot?
Am I bot and don’t even know it yet? Hell of an identity crisis, that’s for sure
Maybe awarding a pro Lemmy post would be more useful.
I’m not a smart man, just spiteful sometimes
I gave away 26 Reddit golds on /r/redditalternatives
Why bother? It’s just driving more engagement to the company. They’ll be worthless either way regardless of whether or not you go to the site.
This is my take too, let sink the “treasure” with the boat.
