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The hard part of recreating the Reddit experience while kbin gets off the ground is that there’s very little stuff to repost. (kbin.social)
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The hard part of recreating the Reddit experience while kbin gets off the ground is that there’s very little stuff to repost.

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[–] Yoshizuki@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an old Redditor, I hated reposts or crossposts. This is not creating contents, it’s just flooding a sub/magazine with the same thing. Karma farming was a dumb thing that screwed content diversity.

[–] D-ISS-O-CIA-TED@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Does kbin have a "karma" of sorts? Because I'm now wondering if removing that mechanism wouldn't be good for originality. The only effect karma had on me was that I wanted to get more of it, like a score to increase. And it's definitely a major contributor to reposting