on top of that, Reddit rewards are disappearing soon so they are literally throwing money into a fire

They used to give out awards to gift daily to encourage people to use the official app. You could also give out gold if you got several gold. I never spent any money but did give out awards.

I spent money on Apollo Ultra, but not on Reddit.

Reddit premium did make the website more enjoyable. I’d never buy it for myself, but I gave it to a couple of friends over the years and the thought additionally was similar to me paying donations to Beehaw: wanting the website hosting the communities I participate in to keep existing

Because Huffman and Musk are apparently (no, I’m not making this up) good buddies who share tips on how to run social media companies.

I guess they are going to roll something else out to replace it

Because the owner wants a bland social media with no soul.

If you ever receive gold or higher you get some coins + premium membership for some days. I don’t know if it is still applies.

I saw some comments on a Reddit thread about the place picture saying things like, “Who’s spez?” Or “what did this spez person do?” It’s almost like they weren’t even on Reddit around the time of the protests to have a clue what people are upset about. There must be some percentage of Reddit that is just completely unaware.

Average Reddit behaviour.