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.
I kinda wish they would also hide the upvote/downvote numbers as well. Completely removed all the visible numbers that could potentially be used to "keep score". Posts and comments shouldn't be about who's winning.
But how will I get emotional validation from a group of anonymous strangers?
[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!^
bless you your work.
ToR may be coming to an end but accessibility will never stop being a need 🧡
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.
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).
It's a rainbow pentagram which means only the gayest of demons will be brought forth. Only bottoms need worry about their horned dicks.
Happy priDE MONth, kids 💞
The pentagram is a symbol of protection from evil. It protects us from evil CEOs.
It still needed the circle around it, but the pentagon still should do it
Original content and exclusively for the Fediverse! That's a good sign.
Huh, I hadn't noticed that before. Definitely gonna be the focus of some unstable people I'm sure.
And why is it called the Fediverse huh? How could you fall for such a clear honeypot smh my head
It's ALL connected!
This is some high quality OC, thanks for sharing OP!
As insignificant as it was I actually liked having karma
So did the bots.
I'd like to see it for communities. General karma is worthless unless you know where they earned it, but someone with negative or zero karma in a community tells you useful things.
We have post and reply scores, thats all I need to whore myself out. A score of any kind.
I just need hard numbers that tell me im a good person.
Is that so strange?
Well that's a useless metric, what if you're upvoted because assholes like your takes? Lol
"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.
I would redirect to lemmy, tho
Yeah, that would probably be better... let me go fix that.
EDIT: I did it.
How else do you think they are able to afford servers? Donations? HAH, right...
Blood sacrifices are the hottest new form of venture capitalism. More at 11.
i didn't look at it this way lmao
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?
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.
You may THINK there's no karma, but then one day....
Any change we will ever see a minimalist icon for the fediverse? xd
That's how you know it's better
Everything’s better with a pentagram!
I just think they’re neat!
MFers when they haven't heard of graph theory. That's a K5 graph pal!
pentagraph
Nice, we're already getting OC
for what? lmao
Honestly, summoning demons might be a decent harm reduction strategy in the long term.
I am the demon lol
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.
How long will it remain that way? I’m sure operating costs will eventually require introducing ads into the mix, or is there some sort of structural safeguard that prevents ads from eventually showing up?
If a true reddit migration does happen (which I honestly doubt for a number of reasons, technical issues aside) and selfhosting is too expensive, I'm confident the community here can funnel a means to support the server without introducing ads to the feed or site directly.
I can picture a mall for Lemmy merch. Kurzgesagt discusses their financing in this video and paralleling that business model with trendy bullshit sounds like a winner to me. Lemmy.world Calendar anyone?
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.
I kinda wish they would also hide the upvote/downvote numbers as well. Completely removed all the visible numbers that could potentially be used to "keep score". Posts and comments shouldn't be about who's winning.
But how will I get emotional validation from a group of anonymous strangers?
That's a good idea IMO.
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!^
bless you your work.
ToR may be coming to an end but accessibility will never stop being a need 🧡
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.
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).
It's a rainbow pentagram which means only the gayest of demons will be brought forth. Only bottoms need worry about their horned dicks.
Happy priDE MONth, kids 💞
The pentagram is a symbol of protection from evil. It protects us from evil CEOs.
It still needed the circle around it, but the pentagon still should do it
Original content and exclusively for the Fediverse! That's a good sign.
What good is a website if you can't summon Eldritch entities?
Edit: that website doesn't load for me
Agreed!
Oh in the body to my website, thanks! I fixed it. http://www.victorgnarly.com
Huh, I hadn't noticed that before. Definitely gonna be the focus of some unstable people I'm sure.
And why is it called the Fediverse huh? How could you fall for such a clear honeypot smh my head
It's ALL connected!
This is some high quality OC, thanks for sharing OP!
As insignificant as it was I actually liked having karma
So did the bots.
I'd like to see it for communities. General karma is worthless unless you know where they earned it, but someone with negative or zero karma in a community tells you useful things.
We have post and reply scores, thats all I need to whore myself out. A score of any kind.
I just need hard numbers that tell me im a good person.
Is that so strange?
Well that's a useless metric, what if you're upvoted because assholes like your takes? Lol
Can't upvote it there, I already added a redirector rule that redirects all requests that go to
reddit.comtoabout:blank.I would redirect to lemmy, tho
Yeah, that would probably be better... let me go fix that.
EDIT: I did it.
How else do you think they are able to afford servers? Donations? HAH, right...
Blood sacrifices are the hottest new form of venture capitalism. More at 11.
i didn't look at it this way lmao
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?
Wait there's an instagram clone?
Instagram clone
There's a YouTube clone?
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.
That's funny haha
"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO POWER TRIP NOW?"
You may THINK there's no karma, but then one day....
Any change we will ever see a minimalist icon for the fediverse? xd
That's how you know it's better
Everything’s better with a pentagram!
I just think they’re neat!
MFers when they haven't heard of graph theory. That's a K5 graph pal!
pentagraph
Nice, we're already getting OC
for what? lmao
Honestly, summoning demons might be a decent harm reduction strategy in the long term.
I am the demon lol
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.
How long will it remain that way? I’m sure operating costs will eventually require introducing ads into the mix, or is there some sort of structural safeguard that prevents ads from eventually showing up?
If a true reddit migration does happen (which I honestly doubt for a number of reasons, technical issues aside) and selfhosting is too expensive, I'm confident the community here can funnel a means to support the server without introducing ads to the feed or site directly.
I can picture a mall for Lemmy merch. Kurzgesagt discusses their financing in this video and paralleling that business model with trendy bullshit sounds like a winner to me. Lemmy.world Calendar anyone?