karma means nothing here
I mean, same is the case on Reddit, it's useless internet points. Yet people still farm it like it's the most important resource in their life.
I don't think whether it has any practical worth or not matters to these people. It's all about seeing numbers go up.
FWIW, I've heard that they've recently been censoring any mentions of Lemmy.
Reddit doesn't do that, it's overzealous moderators that do. Like on /r/technology iirc.
/r/redditalternatives for example doesn't get posts that mention Lemmy removed. If Reddit blanket censored the term, it would apply there too.
How does Discord even enter one's mind as an alternative to Reddit?
With its forum channels, it at least has more of a claim to it than Twitter imo. And I've seen a lot of people claim they're moving to Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky as a Reddit alternative.
There's a difference between knowing my baker is a nazi and being unaware of it. It's morally wrong to be knowingly supporting a nazi, whether it's by buying their product or by donating to them directly doesn't matter.
It's true that bread stays bread regardless of the baker's political stance. But it's not like the nazi baker is the only one in town. Just get your bread from a different baker. Bread is bread. The point of alternatives is that you can pick your source, whom you want to support. And that's what OP is suggesting.
What kind of effect does knowing exactly which people downvoted you have on a platform? Is there a chilling effect on downvotes, is there revenge downvoting? I guess we'll find out.
It's not like we haven't had public downvoting in the fediverse yet. We already found out in the past.
Kbin had public downvotes and the main effect was that people put more thought into their downvotes. While I assume it wasn't without abuse, I've never seen it brought up as an active problem, just something that could theoretically happen.
Matrix definitely is federated.
You ran into the trap of taking "fediverse" at face value. It neither invented nor monopolizes federation. E-Mail is federated and has nothing to do with the fediverse. Wikipedia's page on federation lists the very internet itself as the prime example.
Not implementing ActivityPub doesn't mean Matrix isn't federated.
they won't be able to understand may answer
I assume that "may" is an unintentional mistyping of "my", right?
I definitely agree. I want to point out errors, but the issue is most people do not want errors to be pointed out and see it as nitpicking at best, or an act of aggression at worst.
I disagree that commenting for the sake of commenting is a good idea. Quality over quantity, a single meaningful discussion is superior to a sea of low effort garbage. I also want the fediverse to take off, but not at the cost of adopting modern Reddit culture.
a “good post”, by this metric, is really just a post that baits lots and lots of engagement
Baiting anything is bad.
by thread bumping
Thread bumping is still possible on Reddit-like social media too. Just use a sort that responds to activity, like the Active sort on Mbin or Piefed.
There WAS 1 chick in the fediverse.
The situation took a dark turn recently.
No, they're downvoting because they don't like what the post is saying.
People misusing voting buttons as a like/dlislike button is a well known issue and reality, at least on Reddit. But considering the system works the exact same here, it's no surprise that the same problem persists here as well.
Not on Lemmy itself, no, but other platforms on the fediverse might have one. Apps might have one.
Mbin has one for sure. So all you need to take a look at your karma is to hop over to fedia.io and look at your profile from there. Since my point is that practical use doesn't matter to them and it's just about numbers going up, I think this counts.