Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.
Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.
I hate gamification of… Everything, but if it’s just “oh hey I’ve been here for X years and at some point I got 5000 upvotes / 800 downvotes, that’s cool I guess”, I’m kinda for it actually.
It’s like with videogame achievements. They’re not super important for most people, but sometimes it’s nice to look back at the stuff you’ve played or what you had to overcome. Some are addicted to it too. Real life doesn’t give you much satisfaction in this way.
On reddit it was pretty useful to be able to check if an account had -100 karma before deciding whether to interact with them.