I was searching info on a crypto scam and saw that now reddit has jumped on the crypto bandwagon too? Everything must be on a blockchain for some reason
That’s not karma. Those are community points, which are subreddit-only points that have been on the blockchain for years.
If you’re not on the crypto subreddits, you’ve probably been blissfully unaware they exist. But it sure gets the crypto subreddits excited, especially when they can announce that their pet coin is moving to a New And Improved Blockchain ™.
Community points are different. They are only used within a community, mainly in crypto communities.
The idea is that instead or in addition to worthless upvotes, you can send users a sort of tip for their comments and posts. The tip is a digital coin, and the recipient can give it to other users or sell it for real money (presumably to another user who will use it to give someone a tip).
Obviously if real money is involved then blockchain is preferable to trusting reddit admins. And the idea isn’t totally stupid, IIRC there is/was a similar internet currency that you could use to “buy a coffee” for your favorite content creators in the pre-Patreon days. But I have no idea if the reddit version is implemented sensibly.
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
That’s like saying you don’t recommend Linux because you disagree with Linus Torvalds. Using Lemmy or Linux does not advance any particular political agenda. And for the record, I like kbin.
You know what does potentially advance a communist agenda? Buying a phone made in China. Which phones do you recommend?
WTF is this new crypto scam on reddit? Karma is now on the blockchain???? (feddit.it)
I was searching info on a crypto scam and saw that now reddit has jumped on the crypto bandwagon too? Everything must be on a blockchain for some reason
Fediverse won't replace Reddit as long as Lemmy is the main platform being promoted (kbin.social) en
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....