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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 1 day ago (5 children)

A thousand upvotes? Is this reddit?

[–] match@pawb.social 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What's the exchange rate of Reddit karma to Lemmy nothings?

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Reddit karma uses a logarithmic function to determine the karma on a post. The first upvotes give 1 karma each, but the higher the number gets the less karma you get from additional upvotes.

This isn't even some theory based on observations, the reddit algorithm used to be completely open source so you can see how it works on github (or at least how it used to work 7 years ago).

Front page reddit posts with 50k points most likely have over a million upvotes in reality

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

1,763.64:1

From 97 million active users from reddit vs 55k users from Lemmy.

[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 19 hours ago
[–] Kumasousa@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, at least you won't find bots farming karma

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Why not? Lemmy doesn't seem bot proof. Quite the opposite really.

[–] Kumasousa@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Becasue you don't have much value to farm accounts on Lemmy since you don't have karma

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

The bots here are too busy spreading propaganda and shilling for mega-corps.

[–] korsart@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yup, it's like the Apple ads of the early 2000s claiming the don't get viruses

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't even know the counter could go to 4 digits.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's the equivalent of going viral around here lol

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

1k upvotes here is like the equivalent of 50k on Reddit (probably I'm operating on dated info, who knows how much they screwed with the upvoting system by now lmao)

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome to the private forum ;)

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't even really call this a private forum, though. Anybody can join for free with minimal effort.

Now, SomethingAwful is a private forum, I paid them ten bucks to join. And to be honest I like their style. It's a cheap one time payment for permanent membership but if you're being an asshole and get yourself perma banned, you're going to pay another tenner to rejoin. It's a great anti-troll and anti-botting feature.

I don't think that strategy would work well for the Fediverse and I don't recommend it as such. But that's what I'd consider a "private forum".

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Nah I meant in Reddit when you reach special karma number for a post you had special sub opened based on your karma.

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think crypto is good for transactions, not storing money.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like, crypto in general sucks, but digital anonymous money transfer is almost impossible without it.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The underlying tech is actually very cool and neat, unfortunately it got co-opted by cryptobros and bastardized :(

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

So energy intensive though. There has to be a less wasteful way to do proof of work

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Most of the 2nd and 3rd generation blockchains are much less energy intensive (although still more than a home PC).

For example, Ethereum could be run on the energy equivalent of a single wind turbine.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Iirc etherium is proof of stake

Correct. Proof of stake is much more efficient than proof of work, but electricity is still needed to run 24/7 the million validators securing the network.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ethereum's been proof-of-stake rather than proof-of-work for couple of years now, so it's no longer energy intensive.

There inherently can't be a way to make proof of work lies wasteful as long as there are people who want to do the work. If you make hardware more, then it makes it cheaper to do the same amount of work, so people buy more hardware and do more work and more power gets used. If you make hardware less efficient, people just use the old hardware. You have to abandon proof of work altogether and switch it to something else that isn't inherently tied to energy usage.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I was hoping the work could be to solve protein folding or something.

But I guess that's not how the 'crypto' part could ever work.

[–] Sickduck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Check out gridcoin. They tried tying that to science projects.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

You took the words right out of my mouth! I think the blockchain is a very neat technology, but cryptobros completely ruined that.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is what happens when you don't use crypto as god intended: purchasing medication from India and subscriptions to indexers.

Purchase Bitcoin right before purchase. Watch the spare change left over go up and down and imagine all the millions you could be winning or losing.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Using xmr to order anabolic steroids from clearnet UGLs and to order acid and molly from darknet markets, as god intended 💪

And to top it off all the xmr comes from semi legal business ventures in the first place, so this is a nice way to get rid of black money

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I had to order medication using crypto off a darket once, anti depressants for a loved one. I used something crazy like Kali on a cheap flash drive. It worked just fine and I felt like Hackerman.

My acid days are long gone. Psychedelics in general, actually. Mushrooms learned me enough and were a good teacher.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

This is what happens when you don't use crypto as god intended: purchasing medication from India and subscriptions to indexers.

I'm not saying this is what I bought Monero for.

But this is what I bought Monero for.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*checks ETH price*

Am I missing something? I've been staking since the switch. I'm doing just fine.

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think I saw this meme for the first time in 2017

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What's funny is that, in 2017, the ETH high was something like $12. (It got up to $1300 in 2018)

Now, it's sitting at $2000 and it's a "crash".

The lesson here is to buy the dip and then check back in 5-10 years.

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Omfg lol too good

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