Spyke
beehaw.org

I'm glad there's no karma, hopefully that'll mean less bots that steal posts, get loads of karma, then sell those accounts to people who use them to scam.

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And, if you want to know if any of your posts or comments were well received, which is helpful and useful information, the upvotes it gets are still here.

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feddit.dk

Good riddance. The karma system on Reddit is worthless. It's supposed to let users flag spam and bot content, but it's used as an agree/disagree button in reality. Users still lose posting privileges from having low karma and have to farm it in "free upvotes" subreddits... which spammers and bots happily abuse.

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That was actually something I used to help decide if an account was a bot or not, but it was only a minor part of the puzzle.

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Screw Karma, honestly a terrible system of promoting content to others.

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lemmy.ml

You mean to tell me the worthless internet points ARE WORTHLESS NOW???

My reputation is ruined!

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pls admin how do i transfer my karma to my new account ??/

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iod
lemmy.ml

Just track your own karma: go through all your comments each day and add the upvotes :P

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spenreply
lemmy.ml

The cool thing about federation is someone could add this to their own instance

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iodreply
lemmy.ml

hm. not sure if lemmy instance. any lemmy change would have to go into their main repo. not saying it can't happen(maybe added as an option) but something else like kbin would also work.

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spenreply
lemmy.ml

It’s libre, you can fork it and create your own if you want feature not in the main repo. “any lemmy change would have to go into their main repo” is not correct.

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iodreply
lemmy.ml

ah sure. forking works. But then you'd have to always pull down changes from upstream and resolve conflicts, unless you don't plan to update and gain security fixes. Lots of work for just one change.

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The best thing about Lemmy is that people don't repost crap or act weird for fake internet points.

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_s_
lemmy.ml

My very first comment. You should feel SPECIAL

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Just be happy that people enjoyed it!

Even if an account karma system was implemented, the federated nature of the site would make it easily exploitable/pointless anyway.

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lemmy.ml

Me: goes to my profile and calculates karma basing on all my submissions

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it's a matter of time before someone makes a bot to do it x)

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lightrushreply
lemmy.ca

No awards to give either. Only upvotes left to give. So equitable. ☺️

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Klaymorereply
sh.itjust.works

This meme format can be a bit confusing in this context. Since using Krita to make memes is based, by calling OP the "least based Lemmy user" he implies that all Lemmy users are even more based, especially compared to users of other social media platforms which he makes no such claims about.

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7eterreply
feddit.de

i see - yes that confused me.. But more interestingly - I see itjust.works is up and running! Just read in a comment that the owner was looking for names. Seems like he found something good xD

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Yeah that's where I found the server lol. I was looking for a general server but didn't want to overload the main ones, and when this server got started up with this name I knew it was the one for me xD.

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kbin.social

Meta - I'm too old to get this meme without wondering about the reading order Every. Single. Time. xD

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like a comic, top left, then top right, then bottom left, then bottom right.

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Heh, jokes on you I'm a 2/5 guy, 2 Posts, 5 Comments and I'm going to keep flexible all the time that in at 2/5 and the others are only at 1/7 or somethingike this

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gun/linuxreply
lemmy.ml

automod removed what you were saying so let me guess what you meant: karma wh-res?

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gun/linuxreply
lemmy.ml

interesting, seems like it only blocks the correct spelling more tests:

crap

cr@p

shit

sh!t

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gun/linuxreply
lemmy.ml

literal swear words aren't banned but wh0re is?

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nachtigallreply
feddit.de

Swear words that are mainly used as interjections (shit, crap) aren't that bad IMO. Slurs like wh*re are usually targeted someone.

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I've also noticed that the appropriate term for a female canine is blocked. Dog is the term for a male canine.

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Goddammit, I'm telling you, watch your fucking mouth! Swear-fucking-words are un-fucking-becoming of a Lemmy user!

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Andreasreply
feddit.dk

No need to test the filter like that, the full list of banned words can be found in the code. This filter actually did some damage to Lemmy's reputation in 2020 as Lemmy was originally a closed community with strict moderation and little understanding of federation. The admins wanted a quick way to make lemmy.ml look unappealing to chaotic right-wing users. The filter is only present on this instance now, it's no longer hard-coded into all instances.

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