Karma might work on a per instance basis, but if implemented on a federation wide scale you’d have to trust every instance. It would be far too easy to artificially increase your karma with your own rogue instance just by editing the database.
I think it’s mainly to discourage reposting for the sake of reposting. On top of that, lemmy doesn’t go out of it’s way to improve user retention, which I believe karma and the incessant notifications about your comments being upvoted, were about.
I’m actually curious the reason why Lemmy does not have a karma equivalent.
I don’t miss it since I rarely checked my reddit karma but it does have pros and cons.
Karma might work on a per instance basis, but if implemented on a federation wide scale you’d have to trust every instance. It would be far too easy to artificially increase your karma with your own rogue instance just by editing the database.
It would just give birth to karma farming bots and accounts. If you have no karma to farm, the posts should remain more high quality (in theory)
I got permabaned just before i could reach 10K karma :(
I think it’s mainly to discourage reposting for the sake of reposting. On top of that, lemmy doesn’t go out of it’s way to improve user retention, which I believe karma and the incessant notifications about your comments being upvoted, were about.
Edit: added some stuff