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How much karma are you burning? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by demonen@lemmy.ml to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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One of the things platforms use to keep us coming back and investing more of our time in building their site for them, is Internet Points. They don't do anything, but we still crave them.

On Reddit, these Internet Points are, of course, called "karma"

In moving on from Reddit, I'm burning over 80k karma.
It feels fine. I mean, it has no real value, and bots can scrounge up that amount of karma in an afternoon, but it still represents a sizable time investment.

How much are you burning, and how do you feel about it?

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[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

107k. But what really matters to me are the thanks I got from people I helped out with book recommendations.

[–] zeldis@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know of any communities/instances for that yet?

[–] Lord_Skyblocker@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

99,8k Karma. I would've loved the 100k but in the end I don't really care The thing I will miss the most though is the shitposting from r/anarchychess

[–] Azzu@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You mean this kind of shit posting https://sopuli.xyz/c/anarchychess ?

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I was about to hit 200k Karma; mostly from Comments, I had like 20 or so Posts in over 3 years of participation.

Feels good to see it burnt to a pile of ash, because thats what karma was: absolutely useless and nothing.

[–] CoffeeTails@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have ~5100 karma, I've never really cared about the total karma amount but it is fun to see a comment or post be upvoted. They feel like social points and that makes me think of "that" episode of Black Mirror, and as @mrmanager@lemmy.today said, China has implemented that. It's crazy.

But as I always say, in the end, the people have the power. Always.

[–] demonen@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, and we kinda get that same sort of dopamine hit here, just not the global karma, because there is no central place to collect global points!

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

So we will never have a c/KarmaCourt? Bummer.

[–] Micromot@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Just 8k and i don't really care about it. What i care more about is some of the discussions i had with strangers about topics that i'm interested in.