As a somewhat frequent poster myself, I kind of miss the meaningless number going up. It lets me track how many people have seen the stuff I posted and cared enough to react
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- 1 year
Not only do I not miss it, I’m relieved that it’s not here.
1 yearNope. I was on reddit for like 14 years and I couldn’t tell you what my karma was because I cared so little about it. I paid a little attention to up votes and that’s about it.
- 1 year
Never cared about the cumulative, only about the score on individual comments. Still got that, still get the little dopamine hit from looking at it.
- afk_strats@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
I get where you’re coming from. You could revisit the contributions you’ve made and the messages and replies you’ve received. The difference is that those ARE meaningful and hopefully in a good way. I think Reddit actively pushes the concept of karma because it’s an great engagement metric and they love that.
My opinion is that Reddit is captured and driven to push engagement for advertising revenue at the expense of meaningful interaction. Lemmy is a platform where that engagement metric is only intrinsic to the individual. People are here because they want to have meaningful conversations? Maybe I’m dreaming
- 1 year
That’s a good point. I was just thinking on it since I recently reached 500 posts. Might go scroll through them and look at some of the comments again
- 1 year
In a number-go-up kind of sense, yeah - it’s inherently gamification of social media and it is fun for some of our brains. However, I also think that karma or any other kind of “engagement accumulation” turns social media from a place of discussion into a competition for attention, where you’re more incentivized to post solely for upvotes. Only a small minority takes posting seriously like this I admit it, but it does make the experience worse for everyone.
That’s not to say the mindset doesn’t exist without karma, only that it gets amplified.
I’m glad it’s not a thing here because as a “positive” incentive I feel like it drives some users to vapid karma farming over actually interesting and new content. That said, I occasionally miss it when there’s some unpleasant commenter douchenozzeling all over a thread and it’s an easy way to see if someone is always an unpleasant ass or if they’re having a bad day and otherwise make valuable contributions to Lemmy.
No. It encourages people to game the system instead of honestly engaging.
- 1 year
Ye kinda. But I’m so happy that it’s gone. A lot people go wild when they see a number they can increase.
