in different social networks I often see a table of fediverse alternatives to centralized social networks like twitter = mastodon and so on, but I noticed that the alternative to reddit is piefed and not lemmy, can someone explain what kind of fediverse project this is, and is it different from lemmy?🤔
It’s not like you can detect “if someone tries karma farming”. If the platform displays a measure of engagement with content that a user posts, users will be driven to post things that get them points. Then if the platform uses said metric to rank content, that unavoidably leads to a setup where users look at content posted for the purpose of getting points. Btw lemmy.world is also not free from this, people repost engagement bait stupid shit from Reddit to asklemmy all the time, and those get many upvotes and comments. But at least the users that post these don’t get any meta-post outcomes.
I’m not saying that ALL karma-farming is machine-catchable by ML or simple rules…
I AM saying that a subset of it absolutely is:
I’ve read that people make statements, then have 50 of their “alts” downvote the others in the discussion, while upvoting them…
That absolutely is platform-detectable, if it’s coded-in.
Further, the reddit tradition of posting-for-karma-farming, then deleting once the karma’s accrued, keeping the karma is specifically what I called-out, & that can be corrected by deleting the karma along with the content-that-had-karma.
That should be idiot-level requirement, to prevent karma-farming abuse.
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