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A few thoughts:
- Unlike reddit, Lemmy provides a way for instances to not tolerate those sorts of activities by limiting what users can join their own instances and blocking entire instances where those activities are coming from.
- With karma not being a public profile stat, there shouldn’t be any needs to farm it.
- Without the corporate profit motive and centralized control Lemmy (as a whole) couldn’t do what reddit is doing with the APIs. An instance could and an instance could also serve ads, but people are free to move to another instance if they don’t like it while still maintaining access to most content.
Since you’re on another instance, it might need to sync.
If you use the search, and search for [email protected]
Then wait a few seconds, search again, it should sync and show up and let you click it.
I hope they improve this process in the new version of Lemmy.