Of course they will lose users. They will lose the users that would otherwise get them sued. Pretty sure they are okay with the trade-off.

What’s that? It’s on somebody’s property. Someone is paying for power, connectivity, and air conditioning.

It hides the true cost of the meal and allows both the employee and the employer to avoid taxes on this part of the “salary”

Agreed. As others have pointed out, voting helps to elevate higher quality posts (even if it doesn’t always work that way), but karma takes that imperfect process to its ridiculous extreme.

Not sure if this was an argument for karma, but it sounds like an argument for avoiding contraversy and trying to fit in This is why everyone on Reddit appears to have the same opinion. I much prefer a diversity of opinions, and no penalty for speaking one’s mind (while treating each other with decency).

Karma makes sense, in theory, but in practice, it just punishes anyone who diverges from the herd.

“Pcmasterrace” did not start with Reddit.

We are guests.

This is perfectly stated. Lemmy, which I dearly love, is not ready to replace Reddit for the vast majority of users. Which is fine. I won’t really miss the vast majority of Reddit users.

I dunno if “organic” is enough, but I don’t think the fediverse could handle the entire Reddit use base today. I’m also not certain it will ever be as normy-friendly as Reddit has been. For better or worse.

I dunno. This is the energy that made me finally decide Reddit wasn’t for me and work up the drive to give Lemmy a shot. My first 5 minutes here have been great!

Maybe if I’d already seen this post 50 times, I’d get where you are coming from, but for those of us that just got here, this is the energy that made it happen. Be patient while we acclimate.

FWIW, the people staying on Reddit kinda do, or did, impact us. Their apathy means that the community we’ve been a part of for years is not going to get better. They’re why we had to go.