I don't care about Karma, but to see a 0 after spending an hour on something means that it will not get seen (when I thought people would enjoy it). So in a way it invalidates my effort, and causes me to reevaluate what people would like to see (and, it seems my content may not be it).
Might be an idea to make your lemmy home on an instance that doesn't allow down votes (those exist). People on other servers might still downvote it, but you won't notice.
Why should their opinions on your content matter though? You gifted the world a meme, if they reject it thats their call. Who should be embarrassed, the person who gifts $100 or the person who rejects the $100 gift? You do you man
@MrMusAddict I get that. Aside from replies, boosts and upvotes are the only other way to tell someone walked by and thought “hey I like or dislike that”.
That's the thing that was missing in my sight!
And you know what? I don't care that we don't have karma anymore. I think it lets people be themselves even though they might say stuff that would downvote them to the ground.
I will hunt them, and find them, and when they are sleeping snugly in their bed at night I will creep into their bedroom and meow loudly and incessantly so that they cannot sleep