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There used to be a site called Reddit, where you were your post history. Now that site is dead - the URL still works, I guess, but it links to some weird Twitter with an alien logo.
That's the best description of reddit I've ever seen both past and present, and you've completely bypassed all of the usual sayings about reddit in the process. I applaud you! Now where's that Lemmy gold thing...
On a side note, an actual financial implementation of Lemmy gold would probably be a really good feature to drive donations to hosts. I'd imagine the implementation as the user donates to their host and receives a configurable amount of gold to give as a reward for donating. That gold is entirely tracked by the instance their account is on, then when they gift gold to a user the receiving instance just receives notice that gold was given, similar to an upvote. Then to filter for bad actors instance admins can whitelist/blacklist instances from giving gold to their instance, and probably also make it possible to see which instances a user's gifted gold came from as a layer of transparency to help spot bad faith instances that give free gold or too much gold or whatever.
I could also see an extension where a portion of the gold's value is transmitted to the recipient via cryptocurrency (about the only thing cryptocurrency is actually good at, peer to peer online transactions) but that has way too much opportunity for abuse. Maybe that can be done manually by admins to help ensure a fair dispersal of gold funds? Still overcomplicating and introduces a ton of opportunity for abuse though
I'm not sure if gold would be a good fit for the Fediverse forums. As problematic as the voting system is, tying visibility to popularity is less worse than tying it to money spent.
Instead I think the current approach (donations) should be improved. I expect the same type of people who'd buy gold to finance their instances to be OK with donations, as long as they know it'll be well used.
People able to pay money, to have their voice louder than the rest, is one of the many current plagues throughout our societies right now. I don't think gold or awards would be good at all for the fediverse. Please dear satan, no
I would just add a regular donate function that takes crypto, Paypal, etc but adds a small fee configurable by the instance owner on top.
But to stop it from becoming like YouTube with clickbait everywhere, you would need limits on how much can be given and received.