…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?

  • @gedaliyah
    3•5 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•5 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.