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 24 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 39 minutes ago

Also, smaller servers means that it's easier to spot criminal communities and boot their asses. Also individual servers can be cracked down on for hosting evil content, without all of Lemmy being destroyed.

[–] RoamingWanderer@mander.xyz 21 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jakeyounglol@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

yeah, and you can luckily just block their instance

[–] Suoko@feddit.it -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours 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"

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 10 points 4 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 4 hours ago

I put an edit since many had the same rebuttal.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 16 points 6 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.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

that's number of comments, not total points.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Impossible. I don't comment that much

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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.

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cliff@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Be the change you want to see.

[–] BeiYang@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 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 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 35 minutes ago

I've heard certain clients or servers are able to spot crossposts and reposts, and mark them as crossposts/reposts. I definitely know that the app I use does not.

I think it's doable. It'd likely require hashing posts so that Lemmy apps can keep track of those hashes.

[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I have the same issue

Sometimes it’s the multiple posting, sometimes it’s just old posts that are still active and getting comments. Like 2 day old posts. Since they get so many comments still it’s likely that lots of other people are seeing them too

[–] g0ndii@feddit.org 2 points 5 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 4 hours ago

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

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 8 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 6 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 2 points 6 hours ago

We have that here too. FlyingSquid comes to mind.

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