It wasn't important on Reddit. Even there you could only lose 15 points on any downvoted comment and you couldn't lose points for posts. Karma was just a way to measure how frequently you interacted in an additive way. It's only real utility was for mods to bar new accounts from posting without getting come karma from other places first. and Lemmy definitely needs something like that in the near future for moderation, but they have to fix the bug with the total first.
how do people on this site not realize that the points next to your posts affect how your posts are sorted and are literally the exact same system as reddit? am i just so blind that i can actually see the numbers next to my posts or is everyone here just trying to be so anti-reddit they'll make up bullshit that isn't reality?
So long as the federation of servers is based on the whim of the few people who own the instances, the server you choose is most currently relevant. The people running these communities need to realize that cutting of groups just because you don't agree with them or have personal issues with them is going to cause an extremely fragmented experience, alienating new users who don't understand the landscape this ensuring nothing but monolithic servers and communities exist and no small communities will ever be populated.
i have absolutely no idea how you could come to the conclusion that someone has only 1 device when they say they want to be able to copy their songs to multiple devices through spotify. the entire reason i pay for spotify is because it has a massive music library that i can access on any device i log in from.
as i said in my comment, if they had a way for me to sync my personal library to all of my devices without having to set it up manually on every single one, i would not be having these issues. that's on spotify, not the copyright holders.
Idk, I have quite a bit of music fall off my liked playlist because of licencing. They're not mainstream popular tracks, and sometimes it's because they update the albums, but it gets annoying when a song I like and have listened to is removed, and if I wanna have it, I need to put a copy of it on all my devices by hand. If they had a way to sync devices with my personal tracks, and support for audiobooks, I would think it's virtually perfect. Too bad itunes doesn't work with Android or aupoort a Spotify plugin.
Most of the time those professors make next to nothing from you buying the book. Unless it's their direct commercial product, they're getting screwed just like you are.
The constant defederation of various instances for biased reasons does affect everyone who uses lemmy. Instances lead by emotions will degrade this entire system leading to it's downfall. beehaw stopped growing when they defederate from other major instances, and it will happen here too.
their most popular content is not child like, they changed their rules, and somehow you don't see that you too are biased. and again, no one in this thread has seen the post that you started this over.
You're attributing combative interaction to an algorithm on a site that has no algorithm. Congratulations you just proved the algorithm isnt needed to cause interaction. People do this with no computer forcing them to, but tons of people here are convinced that every other site is filled with bots manipulating content for people when the people are asking for the content, sometimes very directly.
The fact that the user is the one imputing the data to determine the received content in some way. You're selecting the content you interact with, not a black box trying to take over the population. They just want you to stay on the site, look at the ads, and never leave. They don't care about your political allegiance or what movies you like, they will feed you whatever you want.
No one forces you to engage in arguments on Reddit or Twitter. You have autonomy over who you interact with on both sites. You're not being forced or manipulated to do anything. If you engage in this these things people perceive as negative, it's because you choce to do it of your own free will.
It wasn't important on Reddit. Even there you could only lose 15 points on any downvoted comment and you couldn't lose points for posts. Karma was just a way to measure how frequently you interacted in an additive way. It's only real utility was for mods to bar new accounts from posting without getting come karma from other places first. and Lemmy definitely needs something like that in the near future for moderation, but they have to fix the bug with the total first.