I'm sorry to tell you that an equivalent of Karma existed from the very beginning (though rather than being Upvotes minus Downvotes, it was Boosts minus Downvotes until a few days ago due to a bug). It's called Reputation and you can see it by viewing someone's profile in kbin. At the time of writing this, your Reputation points seem to be at 443. Reputation isn't being used for anything though, and while it can technically be tracked by anyone, lemmy hides that information so far.

[In fact, you can see who gave up- or downvotes to something and you can also see what someone up- or downvoted (or boosted, but that's a given, since boosting is equivalent to retweeting). This information is out there for anyone to access who spins up their own instance due to how federation works, so the developer of kbin decided to make it public so people are at least aware of this fact.]

Right-clicked on the link, copied link, went to archive.org, pasted link into wayback machine, selected most recent (in this case only) snapshot.

As you can imagine, it doesn't work if archive.org hasn't archived the link yet.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230706023052/https://www.thestreet.com/social-media/delete-twitter-account-google-searches-soar-as-threats-of-these-enraging-changes-take-hold

I would claim actual free speech absolutists don't exist.

Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech

Anything goes, so long as it doesn't hurt his feelings personally

Does he? Is that even possible?

while standing on the bullpup

Boneappletea?

Not saying it's in any way realistic, just that that's what it would take for me to consider maybe rejoining Reddit.

Easy. Kbin/lemmy admins actually listen to their users, unlike spez and his cronies. The asshole can move to their own instance and continue there, but that might get them defederated.

Oh I'm not saying I'd rejoin Reddit if that happened, only that that's what would be required for me to consider it in the first place.

You forgot to mention that it's only open for billionaires, spez, Trump and Putin, but that they'll be given a 100% discount.

At this point, spez resigning wouldn't cut it. Reddit would need to be made into a non-profit a la Wikipedia and be managed by a trust.