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I'm trying to stop caring about it. On reddit I have well over a million karma, and what have I got to show for it?
Here in the fediverse I hope to concentrate on quality interactions rather than quantity.
I’m just glad that in Lemmy you can join the conversation a few hours after submission and still have your message seen by someone.
I hadn’t thought about that but you’re totally right.
It’s like being at a small dinner party vs. Burning Man :)
I got a reply over a day after my initial response on a thread asking if I remembered to change a Firefox setting. And my reply to that even is still getting a bit of upvotes on it.
It's because the hot comment sorting algorithm is different from Reddit's. It favours fresh discussions over older threads even if they have more upvotes.
Lemmy's comment ranking goal was to do exactly that: don't punish new comments on an old thread.
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Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
Good to see some Tennesse Ernie Ford still floating around!
Eh I've always cared and still do to an extent? Like I don't give a flying fuck about overall Karma. But if I make a joke of course I want to see it get a lot of reactions you know?
I get what you mean, but over time I found the desire for validation meant I was more likely to think about the reactions before I commented, and it was shaping what I said and posted.
At the moment I'm modding a super tiny community and I'm posting news content that I know will never be that popular with the majority of federati.
But it's more fulfilling than guessing what people will like and posting or commenting that.
The interactions around politics still haven't changed. There are more extreme views here though. It's interesting to hop from a pro-Russian left conversation about the war to ones where they don't believe in any regulation at all. More random stuff is rising to the top.
I've managed to steer clear of a lot of it. As a non American, it feels much easier here to not have to wade through a whole lot of comments of people arguing about American politics.
Reddit sort of pathologically turns unrelated discussions into that, probably because of all the shills and bad actors they have creeping about the place.
The thing is that a upvote is just not very interesting as a reaction, but a comment is worth so much more!
You make a very good point 😉
Don't we all. Nothing like a little humor to lighten the mood but I honestly don't miss scrolling past hundreds of overused puns to find some useful info on Reddit.
I never got the account karma thing. Do people really care? All i was fussed about was if a comment I made was interesting to others or not, but that's just fake stupid internet points+dopamine
I think people care a lot about the dopamine.
There are subs that require a certain amount of karma to post or to join. It's kind of gamefied at 100k, 200k, 300k etc.
This is definitely the way. There is something to be said about people's need or desire for validation via upvotes, but as others have mentioned here, it's super refreshing being able to interact with content hours after it was posted and not being drowned out.
It feels more like we are having interactions with other real people. More like the early internet.
You lost me at the end there.
I mever cared about it.
A man of culture
You can sell it, I've seen people selling there account with million of karma for hundred even if not thousand of dollars
I know, I thought about it, but the trouble is the buyers use accounts for scamming people, posting malicious links, and spreading misinformation.
I don't want to enable that.
Thanks for that. I didn't sell my accounts for the same reason. I'm happy to see reddit burn, but selling my accounts to be used for propaganda or marketing some crappy product... nah
I've heard that a lot but I always wondered why people would pay for that. What are their intents and how malicious are those?