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Something important to realize is, upvotes attributed to a profile was once designed to place profiles on a trust scale. A person with more upvotes in general would simply, and naturally, be more listened and trust than a person with low or even negative upvotes.
The problem is our brain can easily fall in the trap which has been used by marketing for decades now : the reward circuit.
Thus people prone to make a lot of money abused that, and even raised the problem to an other level with bots and competition. They did so because it creates addiction. And what addiction does create ? Spending money. So you really donβt want profile accumulated upvotes on Lemmy.
Maybe the solution is to show that "something" (that on Reddit was known as karma) only to other users and never ever to yourself π
u know a lot of people have sfw and nsfw accounts? They can see their own karma