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minus-squarejmshrv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoWouldn’t you be able to make awards pointless by running an instance that handed them out without any payment? Personally, I hated awards on Reddit and always disabled them in my client.
minus-squareConTheLibrarian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThe technicalities are above my head but I don’t see how/why. Couldn’t other instances somehow prevent those awards from displaying on theirs? Doesn’t make sense to do by someone paying to host an instance. Wouldn’t everyone have to create users on that specific instance to do it?
Wouldn’t you be able to make awards pointless by running an instance that handed them out without any payment?
Personally, I hated awards on Reddit and always disabled them in my client.
The technicalities are above my head but I don’t see how/why.
Couldn’t other instances somehow prevent those awards from displaying on theirs?
Doesn’t make sense to do by someone paying to host an instance.
Wouldn’t everyone have to create users on that specific instance to do it?