Lemmy doesn't, but other platforms like Mbin might show your total karma among posts federated with that instance.
The instance I'm on tells me your karma is 462.
Pamasich
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Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.
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I, uh, can see why. Mbin does show your total karma btw, even for Lemmy users.
I think they're complaining that Lemmy uses the older method of blocking instead of the more modern version.
The old way of blocking is that you don't want to see a person, but they're still free to do what they want. It's just not shown to you. So they can still read everything you post and downvote or reply to it as they please.
The modern way is to prevent the blocked user from interacting with you at all, including seeing your posts.
I don't use Lemmy, so I don't know which it uses, but it sounds like OP is arguing that Mastodon uses the latter but Lemmy uses the former. Reddit used to do the former but eventually changed to the latter.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is that Mbin supports custom magazine/community CSS like Old Reddit did. Don't think it's federated currently though, so it's local only. There's also the ability to follow users and boost (retweet) content, which Lemmy lacks.
Judging by recent posts by Piefed's creator, they seem to be planning to add end-to-end encryption and ephemeral content.
They do have a dedicated "Crawler" page.
And they do mention there that they use a website crawler for their Developer Tools and Network features.
I know you're a Piefed developer, so you probably know what's possible and what's not better than me. But honestly, the encryption part makes me think you probably want a new protocol designed with that in mind from the start. In my opinion, it's too destructive for compatibility with other ActivityPub software and instances running older versions of them especially.
Combating spam despite the simplified account creation will probably require the implementation of something like Reddit's karma system. Which isn't a very popular idea I think.
Regarding the ephemeral content.... please don't. It might sound cool on paper, but it just adds FOMO. We shouldn't promote doomscrolling and brainrot with the addition of features which require you to quickly scroll through shit to not miss out on posts that disappear after a timer has passed.
There's definitely still a bunch of areas the fediverse could be improved in, yeah.
I thought one of the advantages of the Fediverse was to have one account but access to many services. Is this possible just not common?
It's a misunderstanding by you. It's not that you have one account on one website and can login on all the others with it. Rather, you can look at content and interact with users from other websites from your home one.
Like, it's really a lot like Email. If you're signed up with Gmail, you can freely send emails to users signed up with other email providers. But you can't just go to Outlook's online version and log in with your Gmail account. The same applies to the fediverse.
That said, if your goal is to interact with the rest of the fediverse, you're probably better off switching to Mbin. Lemmy doesn't really care about anything that's not a Reddit-like.
I think it's fine to use unique platform features like this, but if you're actually using this actively, be aware that not everyone will see your titles as you intended them. It's only Lemmy users that can see it actually render "properly", everyone else just sees the plaintext Markdown symbols.
Look at the instance OP is from, it's not one of the big twitter knockoffs.
Their target audience is Mastodon users though, not Lemmy. And Mastodon requires hashtags for discovery. OP is just writing their post in a way that it can be found by Mastodon users.
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