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I don't know where else to go.
The best thing about reddit for me was an endless stream of information and news propped up by user discussion. I rarely just scrolled endlessly through posts; I loved delving into comments on posts which didn't even interest me at face value to see what I could learn from niche communities.
It was, hands down, the best, most information dense landscape I've ever seen and frankly I feel a little lost without it. I hope that some day, some where I can find something similar.
I'm genuinely curious, why do the points matter?
brain
Gotta feel good soemwhere
As much as I know it's stupid, I still miss having a total points count with the karma
If you make it, I'll join.
Why not post at both places?
12k views but probably 10k are bots and the others are too busy scrolling to ever use your knowledge. And then your content is buried on someone else's platform. I think reddit (and lemmy for that case) are horrible for keeping and spreading useful information and I wonder why people see them as the best alternative.
Because Reddit is overflowing with bots and it's about to get way worse https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/
To try and look like real users. Then they sell out upvotes to companies wanting to promote their own posts.
In order to interact in many reddit communities, a certain amount of karma is required. The idea behind this was that it would be harder to just make a million new accounts and start spamming posts. The reality is that it just means that anyone who wants to spam or scam on reddit now has to build a bot infrastructure that can make itself seem legitimate by artificially interacting with the site to gain karma. The bots do this by interacting with the site, making posts to gain karma, etc.