It provides other users with an at a glance idea of your reputation, without chasing a "high score". Could always rank users based on up/down votes, as I said, but limit the range so that as long as you've been active for a few months and aren't a douchebag, your score will be maxed out.
Maybe we could still have karma, but display it as a ratio of good:bad karma or something? Active user and most of your interactions get upvoted, green dot. New user or not active for a while? Gray dot. Established user and all your content gets downvoted all the time, red dot.
Get banned from 50+ subreddits? Your color dot gets changed to a picture of u/spez.
The cruise is over, but may be happening again next year. There are still tickets for the music fest.
Did a one week clothing optional sailing cruise last month, and headed to a three day nude music festival in July.
Not sure if we're going to run with this, but reserving it for now.
Yeah, for sure, like early Reddit, early Facebook, Orkut, etc. We run a sub for a non technical interest though, so it is a very real concern for me.
Maybe, I just don’t see a federated social media platform being adopted by the average user. Seems to be far too confusing.
This is something I'm curious about as well. Will there be a dozen (or more) r/food communities, one on each server? That is not only confusing, but can fragment already small communities below critical mass.
I really need an eli5 for this fediverse thing. I'm here using Jerboa, logged in to lemmy.world. when I try and comment or vote on content on other instances, like lemmy.ml, I'm told I have to log in. Is that a Jerboa bug? Or do I really need an account on each instance to interact?
As a moderator, looking at karma is one of the ways we can automate the blocking of potentially unwanted content.