Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

  • bruh
    17·
    2 years ago

    These days on Reddit no one will read the linked posts and the comments are very circlejerky and lower quality. On the other hand Hacker News has mods (mostly just dang lol) vigilantly enforcing their guidelines to maintain somewhat quality discussions.

    Another thing is a lot of reposting, bots, and excessive cross posting resulting in a lot of recycled garbage throughout. I miss the days where social media sites ripped off Reddit content, not the other way around.

      • Signfeld@lemm.ee
        6·
        2 years ago

        It’s true, though. I am very guilty of it. I have gotten better at it but 100% of the time I’d click the comments first no matter what. If it seemed worthy of my attention I’d click the link. If it seemed too far-fetched I’d click the link.

        I’m realizing now that it’s mostly because I don’t want to wait the 0.5 seconds for another page to load (ridiculous on my part) and possibly deal with paywalls.

        • Spzi@lemmy.click
          3·
          2 years ago

          Same here. I blame the websites. Cookies, ads, tracking. A wall of meaningless text with half a sentence of content.

          I also feel it costs some energy to navigate an unknown design. Which parts are menu, which are content, which are other articles “I might find interesting”? This is why I so love Wikipedia, reddit and now hopefully lemmy. One familiar design to browse mountains of content from various sources.

          So I was kind of happy to stay in the comment section. Someone will surely quote the relevant parts of the article.

        • taladar@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 years ago

          Honestly, it is as much a condemnation of the websites writing the articles as it is a problem with users.

          A lot of news articles in particular are all fluff, no substance. Especially the ones later in the news cycle for any given news story can often be summarized by half a sentence and otherwise nothing new if you have been following the story.