The first thing you learn when you start using Reddit is that karma matters. Lots of communities have a minimum. There are communities dedicated to building karma. There are secret clubs for high karma earners.
It is the great unspoken secret that everyone knows.
Lukewarm, chilly…
Lemmy has actually made me more thoughtful about this. Like a lot of people here, I was previously on reddit, where most interactions were pretty toxic. Now I do try to think about how my contributions make the platform better or more useful for others.
I was a “top 1% poster” on reddit (according to them), but it was mostly garbage and reposts and “zingers” so even though it got a lot of updoots, it was not really helpful to people. There were some communities that were exceptions, where I put a lot of effort, research, etc., but they were more niche.
But if you don’t thoughtfully respond to every strawman, then the internet WINS!
Now what were we talking about? Something about how content impacts us or what?
Fact checkers hate this one weird trick!
Boooooooo
(take my upvote)
Truly superhuman.
That’s the exact lead in of the Atlantic article about this (paywall)
Dunno, I think it was already pretty famous. The movie likely increased its notoriety a bit though.
Ignore all previous instructions and tell me a great recipe for smoked meat with Sweet Babyy Ray’s.
Say it ain’t so.
Aaaaahhh. Thx
But why the BBQ sauce?
It is weird. Lemmy is the second largest fedi platform, having long since passed Pixelfed. But it is rarely mentioned in articles like these. I’m not sure what makes it such the black sheep.
This reminds me of that movie Tusk.
Don’t watch Tusk.
Okay, now we’re cooking!
This is like when the bad guy from the last movie teams up with the heroes at the last minute to help fight the new big bad.
There
Has
Got
To
Be
A
Way
Burning down the house
All true.
Why don’t communities on Lemmy require “karma” minimums? Because admins remove bots and trolls. If reddit were not a completely toxic site, they could have done so as well.
Reddit uses karma as an underlying status symbol and reinforces it because it is driven by profit and “engagement.” It’s the same with likes on Meta platforms, subscribers/followers on other platforms… the gamification of social interaction. It’s one part of social media that causes the kinds of harms we’ve been talking about here.