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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour 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"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I put an edit since many had the same rebuttal.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 hour 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

that's number of comments, not total points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Impossible. I don't comment that much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

We have that here too. FlyingSquid comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

For all the problems with karma it did allow for effective filtering. With most accounts on Lemmy being harder to create with captcha and approval it might not be needed

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 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.

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