Humans are emotional beings and often make decisions based on emotions rather than logic. Expecting users to migrate to a platform that doesn’t manipulate their emotions just because it’s open source is delusional. Therefore, I believe we should prioritize adding better features that have proven to be effective on other platforms rather than trying to emulate Reddit, Twitter, etc., to make the platforms as pleasant to use as we can, even if it’s only for a fraction of the users.
Here is a video that I like on this topic.
Context of what gave me the idea for this post.
I have already seen a few examples:
There was someone using multiple accounts a few weeks ago and mass up voting everything on their main account.
People upvoting and boosting every post or comment they make.