Part of it if I recall right was to specifically avoid facilitating the creation of "power users". I figure there are still posters that stand out more than others for their posting style or frequency (or both), but it at least prevents the weird brain rot that sets in when people think their every shittiest opinion is validated by the big internet number.
Quantity has a quality all it's own - Some poster. He must have been powerful as shit.
Hue hue hue nobody needs points to become a power user. The entire internet up to the point of social media appearing proves that.
You're only as good a boy as you recieved headpats for your last shitpost.
It's true one day ur touching upper 2 digits the next day ur only landing the pity point from the person ur responding to
The kind of socialism under which everybody would get the same upvotes, an equal quantity of likes and an equal quantity of retweets, would wear the same avatars and receive the same awards in the same quantities — such a socialism is unknown to Marxism.
All that Marxism says is that until classes have been finally abolished and until posting has been transformed from a means of subsistence into the prime want of man, into voluntary labor for society, people will be paid for their posts according to the shitposting performed. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his posts.” Such is the Marxist formula of socialism, i.e., the formula of the first stage of communism, the first stage of communist society.
Only at the higher stage of communism, only in its higher phase, will each one, working according to his ability, be recompensed for his posts according to his needs. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
There is some code that keeps track of users totals but it's not visible. Someone was able to display them somehow through one of the Lemmy apps I think and was telling people their totals in a thread a few weeks ago.
I don't think gamification of social media is either capitalist or socialist. It was making an appearance in forums and internet communities before social media and was simply community leaders trying to make their communities more "fun".
Corporate took the fun people were trying to create and turned it into the advanced social manipulation everyone sees it as now.
If you had read theory you would know this. Crack the Little Red Book sometime, conrad.
