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How much karma are you burning? (lemmy.ml)
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One of the things platforms use to keep us coming back and investing more of our time in building their site for them, is Internet Points. They don't do anything, but we still crave them.

On Reddit, these Internet Points are, of course, called "karma"

In moving on from Reddit, I'm burning over 80k karma.
It feels fine. I mean, it has no real value, and bots can scrounge up that amount of karma in an afternoon, but it still represents a sizable time investment.

How much are you burning, and how do you feel about it?

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[–] Raphael@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It’s something very Chinese about these points. They have this social system where citizens have a score, and if they get too low, they can’t get loans and whatnot. Pretty much what the show black mirror was showing, and China now has it.

That's not China, that's the USA. It's called Credit Score, in America you go to jail if it gets too low.