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

I’d wager a large chunk of awards given out are through the free coins they’d give away/coins gotten from your post being gilded.

I had some from awards I had gotten in the past. I also did buy some to try and secretly award my wife on one of her posts (I was just trying to be a sweet at the time. She did find out. It was still sweet)

But I also deleted an account that had some coins without thinking about it… cause it didn’t matter. Main point though; fuck them

I have some coins and have never gave them any dime, if you don’t count my personal data ofc.

I used to have Premium, to make up for not getting ads on Apollo. (Plus, you know, ad free viewing on old.reddit.com on the desktop.) You get an allotment of coins each month. Canceled last month, but still have the coins.

This is my take too, let sink the “treasure” with the boat.

I respect that too, just a difference in opinion. Maybe it gave me some closure to an era, or just simply a little bit of petty satisfaction. But that was the first time I’ve opened reddit since I found the fediverse and the last time (albeit for maybe search results if they’re ever relevant, but I bet someone around here could answer the call first)

I gave away 26 Reddit golds on /r/redditalternatives

I’m not a smart man, just spiteful sometimes

I’m just posting my own, in relevant discussions, on the very rare times I go back, ensuring to add links to Lemmy, a link to memmy, and a link to an android app, to remove as much friction from the transition as possible.

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

I mean, I guess whatever makes ya happy man! Different folks with different strokes or something like that lol