At least that’s my calculation right now
I’m trying to stop caring about it. On reddit I have well over a million karma, and what have I got to show for it?
Here in the fediverse I hope to concentrate on quality interactions rather than quantity.
I’m just glad that in Lemmy you can join the conversation a few hours after submission and still have your message seen by someone.
I got a reply over a day after my initial response on a thread asking if I remembered to change a Firefox setting. And my reply to that even is still getting a bit of upvotes on it.
and what have I got to show for it?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
Eh I’ve always cared and still do to an extent? Like I don’t give a flying fuck about overall Karma. But if I make a joke of course I want to see it get a lot of reactions you know?
The thing is that a upvote is just not very interesting as a reaction, but a comment is worth so much more!
I get what you mean, but over time I found the desire for validation meant I was more likely to think about the reactions before I commented, and it was shaping what I said and posted.
At the moment I’m modding a super tiny community and I’m posting news content that I know will never be that popular with the majority of federati.
But it’s more fulfilling than guessing what people will like and posting or commenting that.
The interactions around politics still haven’t changed. There are more extreme views here though. It’s interesting to hop from a pro-Russian left conversation about the war to ones where they don’t believe in any regulation at all. More random stuff is rising to the top.
I never got the account karma thing. Do people really care? All i was fussed about was if a comment I made was interesting to others or not, but that’s just fake stupid internet points+dopamine
This is definitely the way. There is something to be said about people’s need or desire for validation via upvotes, but as others have mentioned here, it’s super refreshing being able to interact with content hours after it was posted and not being drowned out.
You can sell it, I’ve seen people selling there account with million of karma for hundred even if not thousand of dollars
You can sell it
I know, I thought about it, but the trouble is the buyers use accounts for scamming people, posting malicious links, and spreading misinformation.
I don’t want to enable that.
