Yep

Yeah I dunno. I guess it solves a lot of low effort bots that probably generate a lot of noise?

The karma thing is extremely annoying, I’ve fallen afoul of it myself multiple times. But I also get why subreddits do it: they’re trying to filter out bots and it probably reduces moderator workload a tonne. Lemmy doesn’t have the scale (a lot of subreddits are significantly bigger than Lemmy) to really make it a problem, but no doubt we’d start seeing similar tactics if communities had hundreds of thousands of active users.

What annoys me is when your post gets immediatly removed because of reddits filters, but it won’t say why! You have no idea if it’s something to do with your account, or if you’ve used a word that triggers the post to be removed.

Anyway, welcome! I’m always curious how people find out about the fediverse, how did you find out about Lemmy? :)