• halvar@lemy.lol
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    10 days ago

    i’m normally not effected like this but this single sentence made me shiver and let out a silent “oh my” for some reason

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    10 days ago

    I think I know what they’re talking about. A few years ago I believe Reddit was using the MaGiC of BlOcKcHaIn for storing Reddit avatar outfits, and if you had enough karma they gave you a couple options for free when they were rolling it out. They were stored in some sort of wallet or something and could be shuffled around, like a fucking Reddit NFT but the website actually used them to display certain images on your profile.

    They gave me one of these too…

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      10 days ago

      Yeah I also remember getting like an “invite” to invest before their IPO and it was such a shitty thing that made it so obvious the end was coming. It wasn’t long after that the API changes came and all was lost

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      9 days ago

      Fuck. Remember those outfits. By the older Gods I glad I jumped ship when the API change happened

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        9 days ago

        So glad to know Reddit is continuing to support such an incredible feature. What would anyone do without purchasable NFT avatars? I think when I jumped ship for the third party app stuff, they were doing special limited run avatars that were like $100 each. I’m sure it’s even better now!

  • germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    If that happened to me I’d just throw my phone into the river and contemplate my life choices, maybe never enter the web ever again

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    10 days ago

    Oh shit, and I thought being a top redditor was the highest point.