1. Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
  2. Support the hosts with our own funds.
  3. Moderate our own communities.

The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.

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    1. Never add karma or any “aggregate score” like it. It just feeds bad behavior, farmers, and bots.
    • This is a point that is weird. Like, I knew it happened but at the same time, Reddit isn’t the kind of place that put much importance over an individual account, so I don’t understand what even the point of having a large account karma really was. Outside of a few niche posters like shitty_watercolours or the poem dude and some of the HQGiffers who always made in-jokes about each other, did people really pay attention to a single user account in any meaningful way?

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        Yeah no, Reddit is focused on communities rather than individuals, which is a good thing. It’s genuinely hard to become recognizeable on Reddit.

        But, number go up. It’s satisfying to get lots of internet points and have them all compiled.

        Also a lot of subs have minimum karma required to post so bots would farm content to get there