Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious::undefined

  • anonono@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    reddit gold used to be how the community helped with server costs back when reddit had only a few employees

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      I still have my reddit account, only to malicously mod one community and update a secret community about a move to lemmy, but I only use reddit now to do a quick check in on those subs and then a glace at the front page.

      Anyway, i saw the reddit post and a bunch of people were livid and said they were doing chargebacks now. I informed them that chargebacks cost reddit more money than they initally spent (spend $5 they have to return the $5 and pay a $20 fee), and if tok many users do a chargeback then credit card companies would stop paying them wink.

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        1 year ago

        EDIT: in response to telling people that it would hurt reddit finacially I got a 2 gold and 2 platnium awards which i hope were paid for with chargebacked credits.

        They were probably just throwing leftover Coins they had in your direction.