Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.

  • @[email protected]English
    39•1 year ago

    It’s a symptom of the platform altogether. It has karma, which isn’t just ‘some number’, it actually changes how quickly your post hits hot and the front page. This is why people sell accounts.

    I think Lemmy will have a much more organic feel until the major instances realize they can also manipulate posts for cash. However, I feel it will still lack a huge portion of reposts and repost bots

    • @b3nsn0wAEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      okay, that i didn’t know. i have come across subreddits with karma requirements and i’m also aware of the logarithmic relation between upvotes and post age (basically for every X amount of time you need 10x the upvotes to stay at the same relevance) but not that account karma actually counted for that one. it can help a lot with comment rate limits though.

    • Amilo159
      English
      28•1 year ago

      11 years on Reddit and I didn’t know karma helped get to frontpage faster. I had 660k comment karma…

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      it (karma) actually changes how quickly your post hits hot and the front page.

      Now I remember I suspected this, before I deleted my account a couple of years ago. I bet that’s contributing to reddit getting worse. It breaks the user response mechanic.