Don’t wanna be a grammar nazi, but seeing {if} and {would} in the same sentence is just painful, even tho I’m not a native English speaker. And I’m sure this rule applies to a vast majority of languages around the world.
To answer your question, Reddit is already going public and is getting an IPO later this year, so I don’t think it would be drastically different from now, except we’d see the Meta logo everywhere.
Something important to realize is, upvotes attributed to a profile was once designed to place profiles on a trust scale. A person with more upvotes in general would simply, and naturally, be more listened and trust than a person with low or even negative upvotes.
The problem is our brain can easily fall in the trap which has been used by marketing for decades now : the reward circuit.
Thus people prone to make a lot of money abused that, and even raised the problem to an other level with bots and competition. They did so because it creates addiction. And what addiction does create ? Spending money. So you really don’t want profile accumulated upvotes on Lemmy.
I think this really hits the spot. Corporate and Gov can eat people liberties step by step as long as they don’t touch their wallet and really few people will react.
Sure, totally agree. But in this case you’re placing « would » before « if », which is not the case in OP’s title.