Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Oh dear. I am disappointed to see that. I can understand the point of scoring posts and comments, but what’s the point of keeping a score for the user? Is there a use for it now, or is it being kept just in case there’s a use for it later?

    Hopefully it will not get exposed in the UI.

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      2 years ago

      It’s necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you’d need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that’s the only reason it exists.