This is becoming a problem online in general. Just yesterday there was an article from Android Central making the rounds on the front page of Lemmy about iFixit and Kobo entering into a partnership. Except that partnership was entered into 2 1/2 years ago.
You guys are looking at other people’s accounts for trustworthiness? Most I do is judge people off what instance they’re on (which I feel is simultaneously both a very and also not very “dot world” of me).
This is becoming a problem online in general. Just yesterday there was an article from Android Central making the rounds on the front page of Lemmy about iFixit and Kobo entering into a partnership. Except that partnership was entered into 2 1/2 years ago.
That was recently relevant in the wake of Amazon bricking older Kindles, I think.
Relevance doesn’t mean burying the lede in regard to when it happened.
It’s a known method of those repost-karma-farming bots on reddit to simply repost older content. We might run into the same issues here on Lemmy.
What’s the incentive for Lemmy? Points/karma doesn’t matter here.
I think here on Lemmy the incentive is comment and post history to have a more trusted account.
You guys are looking at other people’s accounts for trustworthiness? Most I do is judge people off what instance they’re on (which I feel is simultaneously both a very and also not very “dot world” of me).
Depends on the comment, the post, and how lazy I’m feeling in that particular moment.