• Smokeydope@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Support as in the ‘stroke the ego’ sense not ‘help financially put food on the table and heat their home’ sense

    I would really like to see lemmy add a ‘direct donation’ button to post and comments that links to their paypal or whatever. I think throwing a dollar or two directly at the person who made the comment or post you really liked is an infinitely better way to support them than throwing that money at a company so that they can award a shiny digital icon above the post.

    • Nusm@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      While I like the sentiment, in reality I think it would do the same thing as it’s doing on Reddit - turn Lemmy into a huge bot farm trying to get money from real users.