You get free coins very day you can’t buy them but you can award people with those coins that way you save up for something that was really wholesome, informative, or funny. Keep in mind this is not pay to win, no money involved it’s just a daily bonus for logging in and awarding outstanding posts.
Hard agree.
This isn’t like up/down votes, which simply this agreement or disagreement. (Currently, and I hope it stays this way, there’s no tally. So the votes are rather meaningless for the algorithm, and cannot be used, as on other platforms, to suppress unorthodox speech.)
This proposal would introduce a kind of commodification into the Lemmyverse. I interact here to interact, not to collect coins. That’s one of the things wrong with centralised social media. It’s introduced because it’s intended to create profit—something the fediverse can and must avoid. This kind of feature distorts motivations and would encourage populism, among other things.
Such as giving the appearance that mainstream reactionary voices are correct because they get the most coins, which is inevitable considering we live in capitalism. To paraphrase Marx and Engels, the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class; we don’t need and I don’t want yet another mechanism by which the ideas of the ruling class are given the appearance of mass support.