Lemmy feels less anonymous than Reddit, because there are less users and its easier to be remembered. Similar to a small town where everyone knows each other.
Look at it this way, in a small town people are more likely to be kind and offer higher quality information when asked. The same things can be said about lemmy.
In game theory, a repeated prisonerâs dilemma can become a stag hunt if the probability of future interaction is high enough. Which is essentially what youâre saying.
Prisonerâs dilemmas are interesting because cooperation is socially optimal but not sustained by a Nash equilibrium. Cooperation is fragile. Itâs a little âdoom and gloom.â Are social species destined to be individualistic selfish assholes?
Under certain conditions, a repeated prisonerâs dilemma becomes a stag hunt. Stag hunts are interesting because cooperation is, in fact, sustained by a Nash equilibrium. But itâs not for free: thereâs also a suboptimal Nash equilibrium that could be hard to get out of.
But the moral is that thereâs incentive to not be an asshole if thereâs a high probability of future encounters.