As far as I can tell, there isn’t a place where the total number of points that you have as a user is displayed. This takes some value away from simply mindlessly pursuing points as points would be attributed more to the individual post rather than the user.

That’s unfortunate, at least we still have smaller instances. Things seem to be better there.

Or were all just enjoying it and you’re the one trying to be a party pooper

It’s pointless because there is no karma system on lemmy and therefore no karma requirement to post on certain communities. Aqcuiring upvotes on multiple posts does nothing in the long term. My thinking was that a system like this might end up leading people to place quality over quantity when making posts.

P-please, anything but sitting alone with my thoughts for a while. I just wanna scroll man. That’s all. I don’t have a problem. This is normal. It’s fine. I’m fine. I’m just a lurker man, it doesn’t matter if the content isn’t good. I just wanna scroll.

Unfortunately the redditors have brought their unfunny memes to lemmy. Hopefully they will stop this when the see that karmawhoring is pointless here.

That’s probably a good thing. You don’t need to be stimulated constantly with crappy memes and the worst political takes you have ever seen. Smaller platforms usually lead to more meaningful interactions with other users.

That’s probably a good thing. You don’t need to be stimulated constantly with crappy memes and the worst political takes you have ever seen. Smaller platforms usually lead to more meaningful interactions with other users.

I don’t see how your analogy is relevant here. When you search the word “sexism” on most search engines you are taken to the wikipedia article for sexism which talks extensively about women’s rights movements as well as issues that feminists are concerned with in the today. It can therefore be said that the word has political connotations. By calling something sexist, you accuse it of discrimination using a word with political connotations. This is a conjecture that is political in nature and can therefore be considered a political statement. The word stupid does not have these connotations and thus would not be considered a political statement.

calling something sexist is a political statement

Relax, not everything has to be political.

You don’t need either of them and if you feel that you need this kind of site then mastadon will work fine until you figure out that you don’t