this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Is that good or bad?
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
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.
if you could figure out where the point "live" maybe it would be possible to reset them to 0 on a periodic basis.
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.
Made a post to [email protected] about this: https://lemmy.ml/post/2212950
What strategy? lol
Trying to contribute more