From purely practical point of view, what is the selling point of Lemmy for the average user who does not care about the theoretical benefits of software or the open source software movement?
Assumptions:
- The average user will never host a instance.
- The average user is not interested in volunteering or moderation.
- The average user is not looking for NSFW communities or any controversial communities.
Here, there’s little to no benefit in boosting posts or up/down vote manipulation
Yeah I like the lack of cumulative karma scores, which I think will disinterest a lot of people who see discussion forums as a competition.
Vote manipulation definitely has a benefit, comments and posts are still voted, and public sentiment is still swayed by votes.