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Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma?

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  • Nah. Reddit showed that karma systems are useless as they are too easy to manipulate. Buy/hijack a bunch of old accounts and suddenly, your scams or crazy propaganda are given artificial authenticity. Or, just use repost bots to farm karma. Really, it was a nice idea but failed when subject to bad actors.

    • Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines

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  • As well as how many common JS libraries, while not malicious have no business existing (ex. IsEven).

    • Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result

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  • Note to self: try this.