It wasn't important on Reddit. Even there you could only lose 15 points on any downvoted comment and you couldn't lose points for posts. Karma was just a way to measure how frequently you interacted in an additive way. It's only real utility was for mods to bar new accounts from posting without getting come karma from other places first. and Lemmy definitely needs something like that in the near future for moderation, but they have to fix the bug with the total first.
dmmeyournudes
joined 2 years ago
thus defeating the purpose of link and comment agregation.
how do people on this site not realize that the points next to your posts affect how your posts are sorted and are literally the exact same system as reddit? am i just so blind that i can actually see the numbers next to my posts or is everyone here just trying to be so anti-reddit they'll make up bullshit that isn't reality?
but you just said lemmy has the exact same karma system reddit has.
so your argument is that sometimes its funny to mis-tag posts? guess we should untag porn posts as a joke then.
I have never seen a non nsfw post that wasn't porn on Lemmy.
So long as the federation of servers is based on the whim of the few people who own the instances, the server you choose is most currently relevant. The people running these communities need to realize that cutting of groups just because you don't agree with them or have personal issues with them is going to cause an extremely fragmented experience, alienating new users who don't understand the landscape this ensuring nothing but monolithic servers and communities exist and no small communities will ever be populated.
i have absolutely no idea how you could come to the conclusion that someone has only 1 device when they say they want to be able to copy their songs to multiple devices through spotify. the entire reason i pay for spotify is because it has a massive music library that i can access on any device i log in from.
as i said in my comment, if they had a way for me to sync my personal library to all of my devices without having to set it up manually on every single one, i would not be having these issues. that's on spotify, not the copyright holders.
If the few creators that make fallout or Skyrim videos have shown me anything, it's that you can't sustain off of a Bethesda game at all.
Idk, I have quite a bit of music fall off my liked playlist because of licencing. They're not mainstream popular tracks, and sometimes it's because they update the albums, but it gets annoying when a song I like and have listened to is removed, and if I wanna have it, I need to put a copy of it on all my devices by hand. If they had a way to sync devices with my personal tracks, and support for audiobooks, I would think it's virtually perfect. Too bad itunes doesn't work with Android or aupoort a Spotify plugin.
And that system was irrelevant on Reddit just like it is here. You still have a total karma number in the API, every app I have used shows it, even if it is broken right now. Only the default theme on the web page hides the number. The only people who saw value in karma are the people who farmed it and the people who bitch about the people who farmed it. Either way, making posts that get a lot of upvotes specifically to get a lot of upvotes happens here just like I does on Reddit so idk what this OP is trying to say because they're farming karma lol.