Lemmy's design is focused on quality content by ditching the Karma farmers and addicts. No more chasing upvotes—people here actually focus on real value instead of feeding the ego.

EDIT: I know there are upvotes and downvotes, but the problem with Reddit is you can't post in most communities if your karma or reputation is bad. This is a big problem because herd mentality prevails there and if ypu have unpopular opinions you're basically censored.

Lemmy isn't designed to milk ypur dopamine with notifications every 10 upvotes, so you focus more on posting valuable cont instead of farming for approval and upvotes.

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[–] AnarchiaKapitany@lemm.ee 41 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Oh my sweet summer child. EVERY new service and SocMed site starts out like this. Fresh, fun, and working properly. Until the masses show up. That's when it goes to shit.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Eternal december.

I feel like white-list federation can fix it.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You could do that if you wanted, but if we had these moderation things will probably be fine. It's also Eternal September

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Damn. My brain is a bit slow today.

But can moderation tools really fix the problem of low quality content?

[–] noot_noot@feddit.org -5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yep, it's just a matter of time till karma system is getting implemented on here too

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 8 hours ago

It already exists, it's just not shown.

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Why make this assumption? Is there a reason you believe we need that karma system? I genuinely can’t think of any reason, outside of corporate interest to push engagement.

[–] finder585@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I genuinely can’t think of any reason, outside of corporate interest to push engagement.

On Reddit, I found that blocking people by account age and link karma noticeably improved the site. edit: For example, blocking 1 year old accounts with more than 100k link karma. /edit Mostly helped me filter out karma farmers from my feed that did nothing but repost memes or low effort shitposts.

Of course, not having total karma publicly tracked might make reposting a nonissue.

[+] noot_noot@feddit.org -10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yep, any sort of karma system is needed to get the masses to join somewhere. To attract the majority of people you need something that keep them interested. Karma on reddit is the same as likes on Facebook or Instagram

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Where can I see my total number of likes on Facebook?

[–] afronaut@slrpnk.net 12 points 5 hours ago

Horrible take. I absolutely do not give a fuck about arbitrary internet points and would like to see an open discussion without a majority bias downvoting someone into oblivion just because they disagree. For example, your comment will not be hidden just because your comment is being downvoted.

The only thing bringing profile karma to Lemmy will do is attract botters to inflate their credibility. Those could also be used to downvote others so the botter’s comments and posts are pushed to the top.

Again, horrible idea.