And I bet that won’t long
I call my real life birthday “cake day.” Because I hate my birthday. But I do like cake.
I think it would be cool if you couldn’t see the upvote/downvote score until you voted
I just disable vote counts from being displayed. I don’t care how popular or unpopular some comment is.
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How would Lemmy reward original content?
When something is posted, automatically search to see if that exact thing has been posted before. If it has, then deduct a percent of votes, with the percent increasing each time that exact thing has been posted before. Say, if it’s been posted once before, then you deduct 1%, if it’s been posted twice, then 2%, and so forth. Feel free to adjust this math in a way that makes the most sense.
If something is legitimately excellent, or if enough people have forgotten it to upvote the repost, then reposts can still make their way to the frontpage.
Otherwise, repeat posts will naturally wither away, while encouraging original content.
Hamburgers or tacos.
Hamberders.
Bacon or we riot.
So you’re in favor of the Reddit2 proposition then…
Unclear on what that is…
Reddit used to be overrun with mentions of bacon
I think they meant beans.
Beans and beans and beans and beans and beans.
If rather not think about that.
You’d cause a bloody revolution in the eco.br instance if you don’t offer coxinha as an alternative reward.
Tldr I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion.
Cake day?
I have no idea what day I first started using lemmy, or when I made an account. I’m okay not knowing.
As for “karma”, do any instances track total karma, or just per-comment? Honestly I don’t give a shit if my comments do well or not, I don’t live for other people’s amusement.
As for other people, I can’t speak for them, but I haven’t seen anyone crying for lemmy to be more like reddit.
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Mostly I like the ways it’s not like reddit, but I miss ‘disable inbox replies’
Man, I’d love thrm to add that to lemmy, sometimes I live up to my username and would like to ignore the comments.
Drop controversial comment
“Disable comment replies”
Sometimes you just have something to say but have high confidence that continuing the conversation beyond that isn’t going to be productive. I like having the option to not be tempted.
Cake day is the day / aniversary of registering on the site.
So far it seems like people develop around the ideas laid down by social media giants. Rather than replicating, it would be good to see incorporation of healthier options (e.g. time monitoring displayed in app, stopping endless scrolling and keeping to page by page scrolling, avoiding prioritising low effort content (by showing older posts in people’s feeds as well and displaying more that prompts comments rather than just upvotes, etc). Don’t know how they would design to minimise the hivemind…there’s still plenty of that.
I literally do not and have never cared about votes or awards.
Enjoy Lemmy Gold, kind stranger!
The beluga prosciuttoes at 8pm
Happy cake day tho, lol
Lol it actually is. Boost for Lemmy doesn’t show it, had to go on his profile to see the date
Voyager (on android) puts a little cake-slice emoji 🍰 next to people’s names. I get tickled because I joined during one of the big exodi from Reddit so I share cake day with a lot of other people.
Strongly agreed.
I’m reminded of the scene in Groundhog Day in which they have that one day that just unfolds naturally and is so wonderful, and then the next time through, the Bill Murray character tries to duplicate it, and it’s just awful and cringey.
Lemmy, given the chance, will (continue to) develop its own norms and memes and traditions, and be that much better for it. Just trying to duplicate Reddit here is not only doomed to failure, but cringey.
The reverse can also happen, though. Many of the features of Reddit are there because they are good, so if we just strive to be different for the sake of being different that will end up awful too.
Who said anything about striving to be different?
That’s at least as cringey as striving to be the same, and generally even more so.
They may have been good in the beginning, but they got fucking hammered to death instantly and became tired tropes in less than a week.
I vote that lemmy diverges and does its own thing so we can beat our own tropes to death almost instantly
The only thing that would even make sense to bring imo is a leveling system of sorts, straight from the forums of old.
I suggested such a thing a couple days ago on asklemmy and was roundly shut down. Badges, levels, whatever that would denote longevity and “service” to the communities.
Nope.
Is there a place where you can see your useless internet points on lemmy. They are only needed to show the general opinion of the thread. It a superior system to reddits bot fueled lies.
Tap your username or check your profile. Comments/posts are there.
I would like some geographic filtering, or at least sorting, do I can see local stuff before all the USA election posts.
The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.
The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.
Cake Days are shown in the default web interface. Like for this user who posted further down in this thread:
I didn’t think karma existed on Lemmy? Or maybe it was removed in ann update?
It exists, your total just isn’t visible to anyone but admins.Users’ aggregate post and comment score has been entirely removed from the Lemmy API (as of version 0.19.0 if I remember correctly). It is not easily accessible to anyone, including admins. You could write a script to sum a user’s aggregate score.
Oh I guess I missed that update. Thanks for the correction.
This pleases me greatly. This is the ethos.
its completely public via non-lemmy systems https://moist.catsweat.com/u/@[email protected]
Interesting. Your instance is from another platform, right? Is it Piefed or mbin?
Is this just basically karma or what does it mean?
yep, im coming from an mbin instance. its basically karma… upvotes - downvotes.
it really helps identifying spammers/trolls quickly.
Thanks. I love that we’ve got several active alternatives we can communicate with on the threadiverse now. I like Lemmy but I hope they continue to proliferate.
Does it persist through comment/post removal/deletion?
Isn’t it worthless though? I mean I could award myself karma on my servers communities or just hack it up.
no. Its great for catching trolls.
it literally hurts no one for existing
Well, in that your upvote total and ratio can be calculated, at least. Does it actually do anything, or can it do anything, like it did on reddit? Subs having minimum karma thresholds, that sort of thing? If not, it’s truly meaningless and can be safely ignored by everyone.
That’s what I do.
Not sure if I should downvote this popular opinion in the unpopular opinion sub or upvote it, for more people to see this wholesome take.
I had to look at the community rules to see what to do as well:
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it’s something that’s widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
What is the protocol for when I don’t have enough data to assess how popular an opinion is and I want to spread and support it to make it more popular of an opinion?
welp, i decided not to do anything 😅
Or we all hope Reddit continues as it is, not as a hotbed of original content like it was 10+ years ago, but as a place to rehost content found on other sites, and watch it fade into obscurity so better-run platforms can fill the void
All social media is just reposting from other social media sites.
Ouroboros
