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this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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Honestly I don't even the love up/down votes on comments (makes sense on posts).
I've hidden them from my UI, but I wonder if it would be better for everyone if they just weren't there at all.
It smacks of "engagement" (as in the metricisation of interest/approval; not like actually connecting with real people).
Maybe a "like" like on BookWyrm that only the commenter sees would be good...
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But please sir. My family is starving.
What is this "Karma" they speak of ?
A sum of all upvotes minus all downvotes you've ever received. Visible in user profile.
Motivation for chronically online karma farmers who post the most worthless and agreeable content only in order to have line go up.
Looks like karma shouldn't be a thing then, thanks for the explanation
I think it has something to do with upvotes...
I hand out up votes like candy because engagement is how we're going to get new users and kill the other site. I'd rather people karma farm here than by putting money in the pockets of the ultra-rich tbh
Here have a downvote. Enough of those and you get censored so lemmy can become an echo chamber by censoring anything unpopular, eg someone liking a bad movie.
Downvotes don't get it. Lemmy mods ban people at the drop of a hat and this echo chamber is deafening compared to reddit (at any point in time). But at least we're not overrun with bots.
Lemmy mods ban people at the drop of a hat
Reddit is no different. The mods there are also just unpaid volunteers who started the subs and control those subs entirely through their own personal biases.
and this echo chamber is deafening compared to reddit
That's only because most of Lemmy actually removes Nazis and their bootlickers.
Yet. We are not overrun with bots yet
Trust, lemmys already kind of an echo chamber, but it's our echo chamber so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh it absolutely is but you don't need to make it worse.
So become the other site to kill it because it’s such a shitty place?
It's not just a shitty place, as a corporation it actively fuels shitty practices that are felt across all social media and the internet in general. I'd rather take their users and build something better with them.
It doesn't feel great when you want to make the switch just to find the analogous lemmy communities have 100-5000 members with the last post being 3 weeks ago as opposed to 100k+ with 10 posts in the last hour. The only way to fix that is with new users. Whether from the old site or not, new users is how these communities will grow and flourish. If you want to gatekeep, go ahead but I think you'll only be slowing the adoption of the fediverse and letting the problems that incentivized its creation fester.
Edit: wow this really blew up! Thanks for the gold kind stranger
I'm broke but I would give you gold if I could!
Can i pweddy pwease hav some karma UwU
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