saarthFeb 2

No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

https://lemmy.world/post/42546266

Show threadAllzeitBereitFeb 2
It’ll happen in the Fediverse too.
Show threadSpaceNoodleFeb 2

People downvote me when I say it. That’s all cope. We’re not wrong; if and when this goes mainstream, it’ll attract the same bad actors just as heavily.

Of course, there are surely already a few here testing the waters.

Show threade8d79
I think there are some differences that make the fediverse more resilient to this. For example, the absence of cumulative account karma keeps out the reddit style karma farming. The ability to ban whole instances also makes it easier to kick out bad actors. Instance admins could also implement their own rules like switching to an invite based system to reduce bot spam. Also it seems to me that reddit is actively encouraging this kind behaviour to inflate their user statistics and there is no incentive to tolerate this kind of spam for a fediverse server admin.
Feb 2 at 10:07amWeb
Show threadhypnicjerkFeb 2

  • karma is meaningless to seo outside of account restrictions. the people doing this as a job aren’t doing it for imaginary internet points

  • it doesn’t matter what individual instances do as long as the largest ones have open signups

    • Show threadmaptoFeb 3

    Yet you didn’t respond to the point that makes the difference:

    reddit is actively encouraging this kind behaviour to inflate their user statistics and there is no incentive to tolerate this kind of spam for a fediverse server admin