• alokir@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      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.