Sure, it favors types of posts, but not specific users. It still led to karma whoring having a certain value, but overall it seemed to have fewer of the problems of sites like Twitter and Facebook where followers matter. I'd rather have higher quality/popular content float to the top than popular contributors.

It certainly wasn't perfect and I never claimed it was, but it was way better (for me) than most other social networks because people seemed a lot more genuine, especially on smaller subs (e.g. anything under 1M subs or so, preferably 50-100k).

And yeah, so far Lemmy's solution seems to work well, and I guess we'll see if the continues as it grows.