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 6 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] RoamingWanderer@mander.xyz 5 points 12 minutes ago

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

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 8 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 1 minute ago

that's number of comments, not total points.

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour 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 28 minutes ago

I put an edit since many had the same rebuttal.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 13 points 2 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 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 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 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It's one of two things

Your app doesn't hide things that are marked as read. This is typically a setting you can choose.
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 2 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 1 hour ago

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

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 9 points 4 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.

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 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

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

We have that here too. FlyingSquid comes to mind.

[–] Damaskox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 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 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 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 1 hour 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 11 points 6 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”.

[–] AnarchiaKapitany@lemm.ee 41 points 9 hours ago (8 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 3 hours ago (1 children)

Eternal december.

I feel like white-list federation can fix it.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour 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 1 hour ago

Damn. My brain is a bit slow today.

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

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[–] remon@ani.social 22 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

"Karma" is just a counter of a user's recieved votes. It still exists on lemmy, most clients just choose to not display it.

Also where is this "value content" supposed to be?

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Our value comes from our superior bean-based posting economy.

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