I imagine you could have some sort of distributed karma system — e.g., each instance has its own notion of your karma. Calculating karma would then involve querying all federated instances and summing up the value. So now you’d need two instances, both federated with others, in order to karma hack. Not impossible, but more annoying. Alternately, you could only sum up the karma on particular instances, rather than all federated instances.
Karma wouldn’t work on Lemmy. I could just make an instance and run a script to give myself as much upvotes as I wanted.
Well it was technically the same on reddit. Didn’t work there too
I imagine you could have some sort of distributed karma system — e.g., each instance has its own notion of your karma. Calculating karma would then involve querying all federated instances and summing up the value. So now you’d need two instances, both federated with others, in order to karma hack. Not impossible, but more annoying. Alternately, you could only sum up the karma on particular instances, rather than all federated instances.
You just know some nerds would fucking love finding karma exchange rates and keeping tables. The same people who play eve in excel
you can play eve in excel!?
Can you not?