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Prezhotnuts, 1 year ago

Karma is all about gamification. Made up points to make you feel like your contribution was worth something. You can see it in pretty much all social media platforms.

You never really care about checking others, but I bet you'd probably take a peak from time to time at your own.

I never cared, but I would be lieing if when I post blew up I wouldn't notice all those upvotes.

adonis, 1 year ago

I was a karma-whore, now that Reddit is dead, I'm just a slut.

trynn, 1 year ago

This article kind of misses the forest for the trees. While I agree with many of the author's points, that's not why the #TwitterMigration failed. It failed because Twitter/Mastodon isn't really a social networking site, and Mastodon didn't provide the same service that Twitter does. At its core, Twitter is about small numbers of (usually famous or important) users communicating with large audiences of followers. #TwitterMigration failed because not enough of those famous and important people moved from Twitter to Mastodon, so the average user had no content they cared to read. Seeing posts from your friends about what they had for dinner last night is all well and good, but the stuff people actually want to see is famous person A throwing shade at famous person B while famous person C talks about the new movie they're in and important organization D posts a warning about severe weather in the area. You don't go to Twitter to have discussions, you go to Twitter to get news and gossip direct from the source.

In contrast, sites like Reddit and kBin/Lemmy are about having group conversations around a topic. Interacting with famous people is neat but not the point. Think of Reddit/kBin/Lemmy as random conversations at a party whereas Twitter/Mastodon is some random person on the corner shouting to a crowd from a soapbox. #RedditMigration has a much better chance of succeeding simply because the purpose of the site is different. As long as enough people move to kBin/Lemmy to have meaningful conversations (aka content), it will have succeeded.

fossilesque, 1 year ago

I have no idea why they are publishing pieces like this, and it’s objectively false. Mastodon had over 60,000 sign-ups in the last week, and my feed is as busy as it ever was. It went from like 4 million when I signed up less than a year ago to over twelve million now.

@mastodonusercount

• 12,869,719 accounts
• +411 in the last hour
• +12,425 in the last day
• +69,252 in the last week

Active users have gotten over their initial spike and have now levelled out several orders of magnitude larger than it was months ago.

mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats

Either this author has a poor grasp on statistics or is a Twitter superfan or has monied interests.

be_excellent_to_each_other, 1 year ago

This may be overly cynical, but the same company owns Reddit and Ars Technica.

Articles which would make one tend to expect failure of the Reddit migration are aligned with the interests of that company. This may not be related, but it hard not to notice.