One of the things platforms use to keep us coming back and investing more of our time in building their site for them, is Internet Points. They don’t do anything, but we still crave them.
On Reddit, these Internet Points are, of course, called “karma”
In moving on from Reddit, I’m burning over 80k karma.
It feels fine. I mean, it has no real value, and bots can scrounge up that amount of karma in an afternoon, but it still represents a sizable time investment.
How much are you burning, and how do you feel about it?
I’m just a bit shy of 300K karma on my Reddit account. Over about 11.5 years.
I’ll miss my account for sure…unless an alternative platform becomes as complete an environment. As of now, there’s nowhere else I can go online to participate in a deep dive discussion on specific fishing tackle, then look at a Lord of the Rings meme, then see good discussion about my favorite hockey team, then a discussion post about a local craft beer fest in my city, then come back to the fishing tackle discussion to find a dozen new posts. Hell, I’ve been trying for 3 days and cannot for the life of me find even a single fishing community (sublemmy?) that has any activity, and the ones I have found, I can’t seem to add to my accounts subscription list. I know I should create my own, socially speaking, but if even subscribing to one is beyond my ability, I’m guessing forming one of my own is right out.
Lemmy has potential and I’m hoping it does the job…but as of right now, I’m skeptical. I like the idea of the “fediverse” but so far, it just seems too unintuitive and too decentralized to attract and retain the casual user. Combine that with this current deluge of redditors hitting all at once without hordes of already established communities, and I guess I just fear that the platform won’t be able to maintain enough of a critical mass to create and sustain a community.