That being said, sorting by awards was kinda useful. Except do away with reddits ridiculously specific ones. Keep it to stuff like Gold, Helpful, Hilarious.
I remember Reddit in its early days (it was founded in 2005). The conversations were intelligent and I participated in a lot of them. When they introduced karma, I noticed that people were using it as a badge of honor. People started posting shitty one-liners to get upvotes, but those posts had no meaning.
So I started posting less and less. Lemmy/Kbin reminds me of the early days of Reddit, and I hope it stays that way.
I really hope that Lemmy will never have it. Karma destroyed Reddit.
it kinda did yeah…awards were fun though
awards = cool
awards that increase visibility, comment rank, other pay2influence = no likee
good point!
That being said, sorting by awards was kinda useful. Except do away with reddits ridiculously specific ones. Keep it to stuff like Gold, Helpful, Hilarious.
No, please no! That goes so much against the spirit of the Fediverse and FOSS!
How so?
We[1] have custom emojis[2] instead
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Those of us on Lemmy 0.18.0 ↩︎
Easier to type inline images, really. There isn’t anything emoji about them ↩︎
OMG that’s awesome!
Honestly not to me. They’ve always felt like…
Awards on lemmy would be a great way to subsidize server costs.
The eye shines make it look wall-eyed.
Now I can’t unsee it.
^Mother fucker^… *Digs out wallet
100% want this.
Wouldn’t you be able to make awards pointless by running an instance that handed them out without any payment?
Personally, I hated awards on Reddit and always disabled them in my client.
The technicalities are above my head but I don’t see how/why.
Couldn’t other instances somehow prevent those awards from displaying on theirs?
Doesn’t make sense to do by someone paying to host an instance.
Wouldn’t everyone have to create users on that specific instance to do it?
Did it? I never got the point.
I remember Reddit in its early days (it was founded in 2005). The conversations were intelligent and I participated in a lot of them. When they introduced karma, I noticed that people were using it as a badge of honor. People started posting shitty one-liners to get upvotes, but those posts had no meaning.
So I started posting less and less. Lemmy/Kbin reminds me of the early days of Reddit, and I hope it stays that way.
The problem was that you had to have a certain amount of karma to post in some subreddits.
Karma farmers, then they sell to advertisers or political entities, pushing an agenda.