I don't get the karma hangup thing. Like.. Lemmy does have Karma, but we just don't culturally make it a priority.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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There are upvotes and downvotes and they do have some use gauging that content IMO
That being said, without the corporate structure and profit motive to produce a monetizing algo that encourages others to game it to further their own monetizing goals....it's SIGNIFICANTLY better
Up/Down votes aren't inherently bad, Reddit and other corporate platforms corrupt it with their profit chasing
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Visible post and comment scores are still going to produce some of this behavior. You may not have a total karma but people will still get dopamine from seeing their posts getting upvotes and be reinforced in doing the same again. So the same mechanisms of social pressure and uniformisation are at play. The worst being when people delete their minority opinion comments because of the downvote pressure.
Down votes mean I am reaching the correct audience for that specific content
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Ironically, this account's bio and its history is screaming "I am a LLM posting a bunch of AI slop".
What makes you say that?
Bio: "Your Digital Workshop. We build websites and host them, as well as create content for your social media."
Posts: all on a bunch of different communities. All of them short, just one or two sentences.
that's a very normal bio
Short comments scream human to me more than long comments. Like that guy who never posts any comments shorter than three paragraphs all perfectly formatted and punctuated.
Yeah, but the point is the consistency. It's quite easy to prompt the model to just respond in always in the same way, and one could just say "you are supposed to talk like an average redditor. Keep it positive and short, and only elaborate if asked to."
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