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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 2 days ago (5 children)

A thousand upvotes? Is this reddit?

[–] match@pawb.social 24 points 2 days ago (8 children)

What's the exchange rate of Reddit karma to Lemmy nothings?

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Reddit karma uses a logarithmic function to determine the karma on a post. The first upvotes give 1 karma each, but the higher the number gets the less karma you get from additional upvotes.

This isn't even some theory based on observations, the reddit algorithm used to be completely open source so you can see how it works on github (or at least how it used to work 7 years ago).

Front page reddit posts with 50k points most likely have over a million upvotes in reality

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Crazy that this is how I found out about this. I guess that's what I get for not being enough of a repost bot 😔

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

1,763.64:1

From 97 million active users from reddit vs 55k users from Lemmy.

[–] match@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago
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[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't even know the counter could go to 4 digits.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's the equivalent of going viral around here lol

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

1k upvotes here is like the equivalent of 50k on Reddit (probably I'm operating on dated info, who knows how much they screwed with the upvoting system by now lmao)

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Welcome to the private forum ;)

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[–] espressdelivery@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

People can spend their money on whatever they like and invest in whatever they choose. I’ve always taken a position that I want to invest in things that make sense to me and ideally something that would improve the world in some way

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This is what happens when you don't use crypto as god intended: purchasing medication from India and subscriptions to indexers.

Purchase Bitcoin right before purchase. Watch the spare change left over go up and down and imagine all the millions you could be winning or losing.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Using xmr to order anabolic steroids from clearnet UGLs and to order acid and molly from darknet markets, as god intended 💪

And to top it off all the xmr comes from semi legal business ventures in the first place, so this is a nice way to get rid of black money

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 53 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think I saw this meme for the first time in 2017

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

What's funny is that, in 2017, the ETH high was something like $12. (It got up to $1300 in 2018)

Now, it's sitting at $2000 and it's a "crash".

The lesson here is to buy the dip and then check back in 5-10 years.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're gonna hodl for 5-10 years you probably don't even need to worry about buying on the dip 😂

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

True story. Patience is an investor's best friend.

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think crypto is good for transactions, not storing money.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like, crypto in general sucks, but digital anonymous money transfer is almost impossible without it.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The underlying tech is actually very cool and neat, unfortunately it got co-opted by cryptobros and bastardized :(

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So energy intensive though. There has to be a less wasteful way to do proof of work

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most of the 2nd and 3rd generation blockchains are much less energy intensive (although still more than a home PC).

For example, Ethereum could be run on the energy equivalent of a single wind turbine.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iirc etherium is proof of stake

Correct. Proof of stake is much more efficient than proof of work, but electricity is still needed to run 24/7 the million validators securing the network.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ethereum's been proof-of-stake rather than proof-of-work for couple of years now, so it's no longer energy intensive.

There inherently can't be a way to make proof of work lies wasteful as long as there are people who want to do the work. If you make hardware more, then it makes it cheaper to do the same amount of work, so people buy more hardware and do more work and more power gets used. If you make hardware less efficient, people just use the old hardware. You have to abandon proof of work altogether and switch it to something else that isn't inherently tied to energy usage.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was hoping the work could be to solve protein folding or something.

But I guess that's not how the 'crypto' part could ever work.

[–] Sickduck@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Check out gridcoin. They tried tying that to science projects.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

You took the words right out of my mouth! I think the blockchain is a very neat technology, but cryptobros completely ruined that.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

*checks ETH price*

Am I missing something? I've been staking since the switch. I'm doing just fine.

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