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

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[–] anonono@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I know. I'm just saying I hope