…and do you think that you posting it has a positive, neutral or negative effect on the world?

By content I mean what ever you’re posting online. The pictures you post on Instagram/Pixelfed or messages you’re writing on Lemmy, YouTube comment section, Facebook and so on.

If you look back at what you have posted in the past year for example, do you consider it to be the kind of content that you would gladly consume if it was coming from someone else? If not, then why are you posting it in the first place?

  • Stern
    1•4 months ago

    The first thing you’ll learn when you start using Reddit is that karma matters.

    To an extent, but not really that great of one. Once you’re past like… a hundred, you’re fine basically everywhere of note.

    Lots of communities have a minimum.

    Basically every community of note that I modded did. Kept out a lot of shitters. Sure some regular folks might’ve gotten hit in the crossfire but omelettes, eggs, and nothing better from the admin side to stop the previously mentioned shitters.

    There are communities dedicated to building karma.

    We’d ban people who used those ngl, cuz guess who else used those subs?

    There are secret clubs for high karma earners.

    They aren’t as interesting as you might think. Source: Was in several. Lot of similar names shooting the shit. Secret mod subs were like that too tbh.

    • @gedaliyah
      3•4 months ago

      All true.

      Why don’t communities on Lemmy require “karma” minimums? Because admins remove bots and trolls. If reddit were not a completely toxic site, they could have done so as well.

      Reddit uses karma as an underlying status symbol and reinforces it because it is driven by profit and “engagement.” It’s the same with likes on Meta platforms, subscribers/followers on other platforms… the gamification of social interaction. It’s one part of social media that causes the kinds of harms we’ve been talking about here.

      • Stern
        1•4 months ago

        Why don’t communities on Lemmy require “karma” minimums? Because admins remove bots and trolls. If reddit were not a completely toxic site, they could have done so as well.

        1. From a technical standpoint: There’s no karma, just tracking amounts of posts/comments.
        2. There’s no automod to enforce it (Well maybe idk, not integrated I know that much.).
        3. There’s also the fact that the entirety of of the lemmy fediverse probably gets less posts overall each day then r/funny gets in just spam. It’s really easy to manually boop 5-10 spammers in a given day. 5-10,000 though? Not happening. Top that off with even a small percentage who might be trying to dodge technical hurdles put in their way? Lot harder.