- Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
- Support the hosts with our own funds.
- Moderate our own communities.
The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let’s own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.
When you say karma, do you mean having visible post/comment scores or visible total user scores - or both?
I can see the argument against visible post scores as it can lead to dogpiling, but I do think it can provide a valuable indication for what the community consensus is around that post.
Regarding total user scores, I don’t see the harm at all.
Personally, I quite liked the feedback karma gave on Reddit.
I thought they were talking about how what goes around comes around /s