I agree with what I just read. It should just be an instance setting and let admins choose. Mastodon can't outcompete Twitter without an algorithm to easily find things you find interesting, and Lemmy probably won't be able to outcompete Reddit without karma.

This is one of the features that made social media successful. Without the reward-dopamin loop, people have less incentive to generate quality content. Publicly showing karma is another thing. While it's nice to be able to hide it, it's one method of judging a user on reddit. In combination with other methods, it's easier to spot trolls.

What's wrong with "karma farming"? Disabling it, obviously doesn't prevent spam/propaganda/bad quality content.

Also, reposting is important for people new to the platform. (Who didn't laugh at a joke on reddit which everybody seems to already know about?)

I think improving moderation methods would be way better to counter low quality content than radically concealing information that's already there for the one in control of the instance.

— heeplr

I kinda like lemmy where you can up and down comments but there is no total user karma score. This may lead people to use the voting appropriately imo.

On reddit, i avoided checking my inbox at ALL because anxiety and whether or not I was making an ass of myself. Which I was, but last I checked I had 50k over about a year. I traded one addiction for another apparently. Drugs for reddit.

In the end its kinda arbitrary and meaningless and I'll still speak my mind, try to be genuine, and somewhat mindfull. So downvote me, it probably won't change my mind (:

I like the idea, as a way to encourage contributing to the fediverse.