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[-] sauna7843@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 years ago

Here is my take on karma. Karma gives users an incentive to post content based more around grabbing attention than quality.

I think it is for the best that karma doesn't exist here as it allows users to post what they feel without an alterior motive such as gaining internet points.

[-] unphazed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

See Unidan for reference

[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Image Transcription: Comic


[There's no karma?, By Victor Gnarly]


Panel 1

[A hooded figure in black robes, and no face visible save for large, pure red eyes is speaking a room made of stone. The hooded figure speaks in white text bubbles to another character outside of the frame, who responds with black text bubbles]

Hooded figure: So... There's no karma?

Black text bubble: Ye-

Hooded figure: No greedy CEO?

Black text bubble: Yep.


Panel 2

[The out of frame character speaking in black text bubbles is now shown to be a second hooded figure with round red eyes, standing next to hooded figure 1 in the stone room. Hooded figure 1 has a hand outstretched as they speak, while hooded figure 2 is giving them a thumbs up in response. There is a small fire burning on an altar in the background.]

Hooded figure 1: All ad free?

Hooded figure 2: Oh yeah.


Panel 3

[Hooded figure 1 is shown in close up again, pointing a finger to their left, with their eyes wide in a look of surprise]

Hooded figure 1: But why is the logo a-


Panel 4

[Both hooded figure 1 and hooded figure 2 are shown standing on opposite sides of a large drawing of the fediverse icon on the floor, a rainbow pentagram. There is a pure white, slightly transparent glowing figure with wide eyes standing in the centre of the pentagram, their arms outstretched. There is a small white ball on top of an antenna on top of the glowing figure's head, with a beam of white light shining from their head to the ceiling. Squiggles of white energy and red streaks of fire fill the room, emanating from the glowing figure. Hooded figure 1 has their arm slightly raised, as if to shield themselves from the energy in the room]

Hooded figure 1: Pentagram?

Hooded figure 2: Reasons.


^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

[-] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago
[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago

ToR may be coming to an end but accessibility will never stop being a need 🧡

[-] W6KME@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago

What a thought...we'll have to form opinions of people based upon what they write, not on points that could always be faked or whored. Popularity is an incredibly stupid measure of quality. I'd like to see the up/down arrow on threads replaced by a simple view counter, too.

[-] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

It's not about forming opinions though - it's about deciding what order to sort posts. Sorting by date / view count / upvote count is pretty crap. We only get away with it now because there aren't many people posting. That's changing.

Pretty much all social networks these days have some kind of "karma" like score, though it often isn't visible to anyone. Obviously in the fediverse it would be visible (though maybe not activley promoted?).

The best karma implementation that I know of is the one on Stack Exchange, though I'd like it more if it wasn't so easy to have a high score just by having been on the network for a long time (my score over there is ridiculously high for someone who barely participates these days).

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago
[-] ThesePaycheckAvenging@kbin.social 9 points 3 years ago

Original content and exclusively for the Fediverse! That's a good sign.

[-] OtakuAltair@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago

Make sure to link the post though elsewhere!

[-] gnarly@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Gotta admit, I'm having a ton of fun on Lemmy. Never have I had this much positive engagement and it's just been a great time all around. I'm encouraging all my artist friends to make accounts. Thanks for the support! If you got a spare coffee in the budget, it's appreciated!

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[-] Omgarm@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

What good is a website if you can't summon Eldritch entities?

Edit: that website doesn't load for me

[-] gnarly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Oh in the body to my website, thanks! I fixed it. http://www.victorgnarly.com

[-] gnarly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)
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[-] slyme@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago

"Not gonna tell you what to do, but here is the post on Reddit."

Can't upvote it there, I already added a redirector rule that redirects all requests that go to reddit.com to about:blank.

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[-] Cybermass@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago

This is some high quality OC, thanks for sharing OP!

[-] QuazarOmega@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago

And why is it called the Fediverse huh? How could you fall for such a clear honeypot smh my head

It's ALL connected!

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

The pentagram is a symbol of protection from evil. It protects us from evil CEOs.

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[-] Aiastarei@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

As insignificant as it was I actually liked having karma

[-] foleac@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 years ago
[-] JeffCraig@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

And all the reposters.

It just created junk content for no reason at all.

[-] jerrimu@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

We have post and reply scores, thats all I need to whore myself out. A score of any kind.

[-] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

I just need hard numbers that tell me im a good person.

Is that so strange?

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Well that's a useless metric, what if you're upvoted because assholes like your takes? Lol

[-] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

I cant tell that from the updoot! So i dont care!

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[-] Ech@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

Huh, I hadn't noticed that before. Definitely gonna be the focus of some unstable people I'm sure.

[-] Bluestrings@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

MFers when they haven't heard of graph theory. That's a K5 graph pal!

[-] twelvefloatinghands@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago
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[-] platysalty@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

Honestly, summoning demons might be a decent harm reduction strategy in the long term.

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[-] madmonki@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

i didn't look at it this way lmao

[-] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 3 points 3 years ago

How else do you think you build a protocol that lets your youtube clone talk to your twitter clone talk to your reddit clone talk to your facebook clone talk to your instagram clone?

[-] wattanao@fedia.io 1 points 3 years ago
[-] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 2 points 3 years ago

Peertube is a federated YouTube replacement. You can have it where an instance connects to other instances, and you can also sign up to individual channels using Lemmy so new videos show up on your feed, and you can watch, comment, and upvote and that integrates with the channel. Federated instances can also act as seeds for the other instances so popular videos can be distributed, and viewers seed to other viewers so it a bunch of people are watching a video that takes the load off of the servers. It also has streaming including chat integration.

Another great project in the fediverse.

https://diode.zone/ is one peertube instance.

[-] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago

It would be nice if we could create post/communities that only sort comments on recency. I never did like the whole reddit upvote downvote button for comments.

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[-] GustavoM@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO POWER TRIP NOW?"

[-] DominicHillsun@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

How else do you think they are able to afford servers? Donations? HAH, right...

[-] gnarly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Blood sacrifices are the hottest new form of venture capitalism. More at 11.

[-] Nerrad@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

You may THINK there's no karma, but then one day....

[-] thearchidan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I just think they’re neat!

[-] DietBajaBlast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago
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