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Hey! Thanks to the whole Reddit mess, I’ve discovered the fediverse and its increidible wonders and I’m lovin’ it :D

I’ve seen another post about karma, and after reading the comments, I can see there is a strong opinion against it (which I do share). I’d love to hear your opinions, what other method/s would you guys implement? If any ofc

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are few things Karma system helps with that come to mind.

For others:

  • Reputation
  • Activity

For you:

  • That endorphin XP boost when you level up. Makes you more likely do engage after the first hit.
  • Gives you an idea how your comment has been received by others.

Presumably there are other things as well, these just quickly came to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is a good way to think about it. What is the need from the reader's perspective and from the poster's.

One would certainly read a post with low upvotes from a author with high reputation if you are interested in the specific magazine. I wonder if the reputation should not be topic bound and not just general. That would be useful from the reader's perspective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some kind of implementation of what you said would solve Reddit's problem of mods reposting and deleting content untill it "goes viral".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The exciting thing about this space is that much of it is undefined. It is all about the protocols and the main features at the moment. The 2nd generation tools will be born out of what we discuss now and think about now.

How do you make sure a user is not trapped in his special interest bubble and still gets to see content that has everyone excited? How will we make use of the underlying data, on both posts and users to suggest and aggregate content.

I think there will be more than one solution eventually, different flavours of aggregators running on the same underlying data.

So much possibility. And we control it. If you don't like the way your lemmy instance or kbin aggregates, choose another site or build your own. The data is there.