Here is my take on karma. Karma gives users an incentive to post content based more around grabbing attention than quality.

I think it is for the best that karma doesn't exist here as it allows users to post what they feel without an alterior motive such as gaining internet points.

Original content and exclusively for the Fediverse! That's a good sign.

Image Transcription: Comic

[There's no karma?, By Victor Gnarly]

Panel 1

[A hooded figure in black robes, and no face visible save for large, pure red eyes is speaking a room made of stone. The hooded figure speaks in white text bubbles to another character outside of the frame, who responds with black text bubbles]

Hooded figure: So... There's no karma?

Black text bubble: Ye-

Hooded figure: No greedy CEO?

Black text bubble: Yep.

Panel 2

[The out of frame character speaking in black text bubbles is now shown to be a second hooded figure with round red eyes, standing next to hooded figure 1 in the stone room. Hooded figure 1 has a hand outstretched as they speak, while hooded figure 2 is giving them a thumbs up in response. There is a small fire burning on an altar in the background.]

Hooded figure 1: All ad free?

Hooded figure 2: Oh yeah.

Panel 3

[Hooded figure 1 is shown in close up again, pointing a finger to their left, with their eyes wide in a look of surprise]

Hooded figure 1: But why is the logo a-

Panel 4

[Both hooded figure 1 and hooded figure 2 are shown standing on opposite sides of a large drawing of the fediverse icon on the floor, a rainbow pentagram. There is a pure white, slightly transparent glowing figure with wide eyes standing in the centre of the pentagram, their arms outstretched. There is a small white ball on top of an antenna on top of the glowing figure's head, with a beam of white light shining from their head to the ceiling. Squiggles of white energy and red streaks of fire fill the room, emanating from the glowing figure. Hooded figure 1 has their arm slightly raised, as if to shield themselves from the energy in the room]

Hooded figure 1: Pentagram?

Hooded figure 2: Reasons.

^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

The pentagram is a symbol of protection from evil. It protects us from evil CEOs.

This is some high quality OC, thanks for sharing OP!

What a thought...we'll have to form opinions of people based upon what they write, not on points that could always be faked or whored. Popularity is an incredibly stupid measure of quality. I'd like to see the up/down arrow on threads replaced by a simple view counter, too.

Huh, I hadn't noticed that before. Definitely gonna be the focus of some unstable people I'm sure.

What good is a website if you can't summon Eldritch entities?

Edit: that website doesn't load for me

How else do you think you build a protocol that lets your youtube clone talk to your twitter clone talk to your reddit clone talk to your facebook clone talk to your instagram clone?

As insignificant as it was I actually liked having karma

It's a rainbow pentagram which means only the gayest of demons will be brought forth. Only bottoms need worry about their horned dicks.

How else do you think they are able to afford servers? Donations? HAH, right...

"HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO POWER TRIP NOW?"

i didn't look at it this way lmao

"Not gonna tell you what to do, but here is the post on Reddit."

Can't upvote it there, I already added a redirector rule that redirects all requests that go to reddit.com to about:blank.

MFers when they haven't heard of graph theory. That's a K5 graph pal!

Honestly, summoning demons might be a decent harm reduction strategy in the long term.

That's how you know it's better

That's funny haha

And why is it called the Fediverse huh? How could you fall for such a clear honeypot smh my head

It's ALL connected!

Fantastic!

I never even noticed. Brilliant decision.

I just think they’re neat!

You may THINK there's no karma, but then one day....

Love it

Any chance we will ever see a minimalist icon for the fediverse? xd

Just a heads up OP, you added an extra semicolon and slashes in the embedded link. It'll try to redirect people to "http://;//www.victorgnarly.com", which doesn't resolve. Great content in any case!

me watching too much Supernatural: I hope the pentagram is made of colored salt and there's no draft or wind

Try a different browser. It was "down" for me all day yesterday, but as soon as I swapped from Firefox to Chrome it worked.

How long will it remain that way? I’m sure operating costs will eventually require introducing ads into the mix, or is there some sort of structural safeguard that prevents ads from eventually showing up?

for what? lmao

It would be nice if we could create post/communities that only sort comments on recency. I never did like the whole reddit upvote downvote button for comments.

hmm

Nice job, I like the artwork

But there is karma?