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I like the transition away from prioritizing comments over questions. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On Reddit, my karma was always weighted more on the question side than on the comment side. I felt bad for not being a valuable contributor to people's lives rather than being selfish and always asking things for myself. Lemmy has gotten rid of that point system so now I feel like I can feel free to ask as many questions as I need without having to balance my karma. Also, I have noticed that I participate so much more on this platform than I ever did on Reddit.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hate to break it to you but you have 1512 reputation points

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is that good or bad?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

idk it was more karma than I ever had. always toiling away in the comments of less popular subreddits.

Currently I have 1737 rep points. It says I joined a month ago and you joined 3 weeks ago so I think you are beating me by a bit. I guess your strategy is working! :D

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Huh ... found myself on kbin and found out I also have reputation points.

I hate it! But, this is kinda the messiness of the fediverse at play. There are a few design/platform things which can only be guaranteed within the bounds of your instance, where beyond that it is kinda the wild west of the internet unless instance defederation is done.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

if you could figure out where the point "live" maybe it would be possible to reset them to 0 on a periodic basis.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, the thing about the fediverse is that things don't live in one place ... they're distributed across the federation. Right now our comments, which are coming from different instances, are being copied over to each other's instances and live on both instances, as well as every other instance that subscribes to this community.

Platforms can have agreements about doing certain things like deletion when a request for such a thing is sent out, and then rely on defederating from any platform that contravenes those agreements, which is a method that is both messy, unreliable but surprisingly effective, and also, all we have.

As for karma, it seems kbin is keen on it and lemmy not so much. Forming some agreement about karma calculations being opt-in might make sense now that both platforms have matured in their user base sizes.