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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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I feel the lack of (public?) karma will at least help with the repost bots here. That is, if you buy the "bots needing karma to look legit" or the "needs to gather karma to post in some subs" arguments. I've always found those to be very weird as no sub I've seen needs several thousand karma to post and most bots still look like bots.
Competition for karma sounds like more of the same problem with bots: lots of low effort posts to rise those numbers
Yeah, that will probably help. But I also feel like it just trying to get upvotes makes people compete to post popular but not necessarily good quality stuff. Getting a highly upvoted post is a big dopamine hit in itself.
Upvotes are not so important here, part due to no karma, but partly just because it's quieter. Hopefully, if activity does pick up, the federated nature of Lemmy means some of that can be avoided. If you're interested in a topic, you can choose between a very popular community on one instance, or a quieter but more thoughtful community on another instance.