I hope it stays this way. Karma systems inevitably create tribalistic echo chambers, where people downvote others simply because they disagree with a statement but lack any logical counterargument. It is an attempt to silence dissenting opinions, a form of behavior that is both extremely toxic and primitive.
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After ~12 years on reddit I still don't understand the point of karma. Okay, it's nice to have this counter, but that's it. I've never checked out how much karma someone else has.
And if you come from Reddit where people can't ignore a comment with a different opinion and have to down vote it, please don't do that here. We don't need that negativity.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
But but sometimes you get drunk and shit post on Lemmy and you should delete those
You should still delete your posts and comments.
There’s only so much server space and if it turns out you dropped a stinker you can save dozens of servers from having to hold it.
Is there a new influx of Reddit users? If so, why?
They got rid of r/all and the bot karma farming went super critical.
It's overrun by AI slop bots too.
This was the top post of r/aww the other day. Nobody noticed the AI slop. Or maybe all the comments were bots too.
A cat taking a piss is the last thing I would upload to the awww sub, and I actually did follow that one on half of my accounts there.
But what are the other tells now, I take it the pattern is different on the floor in the circled part? I couldn't even tell.
The last pic obviously the electrical outlet looks wrong but idk,
The cat in the last pic doesn't look like the same cat either, it's tail is fluffy, and it looks older, than the pissing cat?
These types of outlets do exist(old/rarely used) but it’s mounted sideways. However it doesn’t seem to have any grounding going on. Afaik a circular one should have grounding.
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I'm not sure but maybe it's because reddit is aggressively banning or shadow banning accounts.
Every week spez does something to mess it up. It's hard to keep track.
That's why I'm here. No clue what I even did wrong. Wild guess is that it was from editing a post that contained a pastebin link to code I was asking a question about. But whatever the reason, this place is actually kinda nice. I did manage to revive a throwaway Reddit account I once made, so I guess I could go back, but haven't really felt the need.
Probably banned you for not being a bot.
They know it's you still, if you've been permabanned especially.
Even if no ip or browser fingerprints or any of that rot follows you from your old account, the way you talk, your phrases, would id you.
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I've noticed that too. I have a lurker account but I've been largely out of touch with Reddit since 2014 or so.
I’ve been off Reddit for awhile; when I looked over the past week it seems much deader.
Posts are getting much less engagement there than they were for the past few years, imo. Take my opinion with a grain of salt though cause that’s just for the most front page communities I happened to visit.
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When I left reddit I just quit. I didn't clean up anything.
you should at least replace your history with gibberish or ai poisoning, couple of open source githubs that do it, dont let them keep monetizing your contributions
What's a good poisoning one?
I was talking about this in another thread the other day, and somebody pointed out that, on the fediverse, every post gets pushed out everywhere. So, a user deleting their own post is just asking pretty please if all the federated instances will respect its deletion.
I don't think that all fediverse clients/portals delete the comments along with the posts. IIRC, Voyager lets you look at the comments on deleted posts, at least I think I've seen my own comment after the post was deleted.
Yes. But by default the instances delete the content when the request comes.
Clients like voyager and summit do show your comment because the reference exist on your profile but others cannot discover it because the post itself is gone from all feeds.
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Please don’t care about up/down votes… but if anyone wants to downvote this then please do.
Wait, deleting a post removes alle comments?
Like in deleting them aswell?
You guys have downvotes? Every time I try to downvote a post I got a server error
Don't some instances deactivate downvotes?
Yes. Mine, too. I can't give or see down votes.
But you don't usually need down votes. If it's terribly bad, report it... If not, ignore it...
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Live by your mistakes, be honest about them how else are you supposed to get better.
Yeah but what about the dopamine hit or loss upon societal rejection?
Even without karma (beyond good and evil), isn't there a societal sense of shame or guilt for writing something horrible?