- Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
- Support the hosts with our own funds.
- Moderate our own communities.
The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.
True, but not a shitpost tho ^^
Why did you post it to shitposting tho? This is pretty true and not a shitpost at all.
- Never add karma or any “aggregate score” like it. It just feeds bad behavior, farmers, and bots.
This is a point that is weird. Like, I knew it happened but at the same time, Reddit isn’t the kind of place that put much importance over an individual account, so I don’t understand what even the point of having a large account karma really was. Outside of a few niche posters like shitty_watercolours or the poem dude and some of the HQGiffers who always made in-jokes about each other, did people really pay attention to a single user account in any meaningful way?
Yeah no, Reddit is focused on communities rather than individuals, which is a good thing. It’s genuinely hard to become recognizeable on Reddit.
But, number go up. It’s satisfying to get lots of internet points and have them all compiled.
Also a lot of subs have minimum karma required to post so bots would farm content to get there
reddit used to run on funds at the very beginning as well
- Decentralize.
If you have everyone on one instance then you just create another reddit. Just using the federated system isn’t going to change anything if you aren’t federating.
