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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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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Well, and also because I can express my hope that a piano fall on Spez's head.

[–] RoamingWanderer@mander.xyz 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

And we're allowed to say Nazi's are bad

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 54 minutes ago

You just get the occasional weirdo from a weirdo instance arguing otherwise

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 0 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

It's comparing lemmy to Reddit, not to the twitter zombie

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 43 minutes ago

Sadly Reddit has been toeing the line and has been banning any accounts for "threatening violence" for any support of Luigi no matter how peaceful or non-violent or ANY criticism of Elon The Musky Husky

Heck even before my account was banned I was warned for "advocating violence" just for saying "It's understandable to wanna punch Nazis"

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 15 minutes ago

Quality content? You mean the exact same stuff that’s on Reddit, often copied directly from Reddit?

800,000 “Trump bad! Look at this latest bad thing Elong did!” posts a day is not quality content

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

by ditching the Karma farmers

How, exactly? Decentralization aside, lemmy is a reddit clone, but on a smaller scale. The same human psychology that drives reddit also drives lemmy. I think your assessment is more applicable to mastodon because there you really have to figure out how to fill your feed with content.

[–] wittycomputer@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

I put an edit since many had the same rebuttal.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Lemmy still has comment karma. Mine's at 1500.

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

that's number of comments, not total points.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

Impossible. I don't comment that much

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

idk what to tell you, but that is what that number means. Here is mine, you can see it shows a 1 as ive only ever made 1 post, and not a 3 for the number of points on my only post. Also im not sure this applies to other lemmy instances, might just be a lemm.ee thing.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 13 points 3 hours ago

Give it another year or two and we'll have some website that tallies the karma of lemmy users. Clout is an insidious disease that grows like a social cancer.

[–] BeiYang@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

I have a question though:

On Reddit the same post won't usually show up twice in my feed (unless it's a repost). So once you've seen it, Reddit notices that and kind of marks it as seen I guess.

Using Lemmy however I happen to see the same posts over and over again for days. Is there any way to fix this?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's one of two things

  1. Your app doesn't hide things that are marked as read. This is typically a setting you can choose.

  2. The same content is being posted to multiple communities or multiple instances (if you are watching global feed). This is not something that can be fixed I think.

[–] g0ndii@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I would like some tips as well. Currently i’m using voyager, which has a ‚hide read‘ function (for posts you’ve opened) and other than that I swipe hide posts that i’ve „seen“ manually.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

Jerboa has an option to mark posts as read automatically (when scrolling over it)

I've never had that experience with reddit. I see so much again

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

We have that here too. FlyingSquid comes to mind.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago

We have plenty of astroturfing bots & powermods here. Once karma becomes a worthwhile metric for some to filter by, it’ll be abused & manipulated here, too.

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I did count my likes from some top liked comments or posts of mine before. It kinda feels the same as karma, to me.

I'd say that people always find some way to get addicted to something, in whatever.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

idk about you but psychologically i never chceckef my ksrma scote but still pay some attention to how an individual comment/submission is perceived. cuz i took the time to write it and it's cool if people like/understand it and it's "important" if they dont (at least important to my rat brains)

as a departure from this mentality, i will not edit the typos

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I liked my karma back on my old reddit account (before being banned from supporting Luigi), but that is because I had the account for 12 years and invested too much time into it.

So far I'm enjoying the laid back nature of lemmy. Hopefully there will be more engagement, maybe some UI updates too. But overall I'm liking the switch. The conversations and posts feel more real.

[–] roguesignal@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

I got banned for my support of Luigi as well. 15 year account over there. Sometimes you gotta say goodbye to a friend.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 10 points 7 hours ago

The lack of karma is definitely a plus. Zionist trolls can downvote all they want, no one cares. In fact, there isn’t much of an incentive for any to invest in “downvote farms”.

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