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Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah. Reddit showed that karma systems are useless as they are too easy to manipulate. Buy/hijack a bunch of old accounts and suddenly, your scams or crazy propaganda are given artificial authenticity. Or, just use repost bots to farm karma. Really, it was a nice idea but failed when subject to bad actors.

Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

As well as how many common JS libraries, while not malicious have no business existing (ex. IsEven).

Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Note to self: try this.