Will second Doki Doki Literature Club. Undertale should also be on this list I feel.

The fact that clicking the link takes you to a 404 page definitely helps with the whole “accidentally” bit.

Anyone know if the story turned out to be false and got deleted or if it’s just a dud link?

Sunk cost fallacy is probably the most obvious one that springs to mind. Not unlike gambling in a sense, people feel they just need one big payout to win it all back and then some, so they keep betting, hoping that this time things will go in their favour.

It’s what plants crave, it’s got electrolytes!

It used to in the past. It was removed in the 0.19.0 release. This is the pull request that took it out (I think).

This thread has some of the reasoning for it, but at a high level the Lemmy devs made a call that the benefits a karma system provide didn’t outweigh the problems a karma system can cause.