Site policies can prevent that kind of behavior in that particular site. It’s better than nothing.

I agree. One clear example is banning someone for participating on a community the mod doesn’t like. Admins should learn from reddit’s mistakes and limit what mods can and can’t do.

But what’s the actual problem with the ability for posts to have negative scores?

It incentives self censorship that turns sites into echo chambers. e.g. Reddit

There’s currently nothing stopping a mod from creating a bot to do the same. Maybe it’s already a thing.

Here

I like being able to say what I want without being banned by a power-tripping mod

There’s currently nothing stopping a mod from creating a bot that deletes comments below certain threshold or that bans users for commenting on communities they don’t approve like they did on Reddit. Only site policies can prevent that.

I agree, but there already is a karma system.

Nobody cared at all

The mods cared. There were many bots used by moderators that relied on karma, the main one being automoderator.

It did if your karma was low enough. It also affected whether your votes were counted or not.

Yes it does. Some filtering is done by reddit and some by the mods. Also your votes don’t count if you don’t have certain amount of karma accumulated on the sub you are voting.

Also as a right leaning person everytime I say an opinion I get downvoted to hell, which puts my score in negative.

You can see you total score here.

Lemmy only has the voting per individual post and comment, but doesn’t accumulate this as a sidewide score.

Lemmy does have a karma system. Here’s yours.

I tried it on these platforms:

• Twitter: it works
• Mastodon: it works
• tumblr: it works
• Reddit: it doesn’t loop, video must be at least 2 seconds in length, not allowed in comments
• Discord: not autoplay, no loop
• Lemmy: no video hosting

In that case the only people that can answer the question are the engineers from those platforms.

Yes, but if you tried to share that mp4 on other platforms it would be treated as a video, and that’s why gifs are still relevant.

mp4 is a video format, the key differences with animated images being autoplay, looping and maybe transparency.

Of all the formats you mentioned these are supported on popular platforms:

• Twitter: gif
• Discord: gif
• Mastodon: gif
• Reddit: gif, apng
• Tumblr: gif, webp
• Lemmy: gif, apng, webp

That’s why gifs are still a thing.

The fact that GIF is still a thing in 2023 is baffling

As opposed to what widely supported animated image format?

no offense

I really enjoyed the concept and story of In Time

If you liked the concept you may want to watch the 1987 short The Price of Life.