I can understand the desire to get as many downvotes as possible on reddit. I don’t sympathize, but I can at least see where people are coming from. Because Reddit gives you that total and shows it to you.
And I’m sure it’s possible to use an API to really that number up on Lemmy, but “total karma” doesn’t seem to be something Lemmy cares about by default, so where is the motivation coming from?
Is it just the same reason people have always been trolls? Because I’ve never quite understood that, either
I mean many might try to be one such thing and then something else entirely ends up being the result. Like once upon a time there did live a simple belief who wished harm upon nobody but who was persecuted because it was different that what everyone was prepared for.