Karma is useful on things like discourse or mattermost as a spam prevention feature, you gradually expose features to people who aren’t being spammy. The same thing is true of a user joining a new community on the same site.
folks talked about “you should be able to search by !communityname@instance.name” not working, even if the community /is/ already federated and sharing content (think !technology@beehaw.org) - so there’s definitely growing pains.
If I remember he said no once he had a closer look at the financials and cybersecurity reports under NDA, but at that point in a merger and non-compete it’s basically telling you “good, you’ve bought it, here’s what to plan for” - it’s not something a competitor can just peek in and then back out of.
upvoting things on the main lemmy.ml page spins forever.