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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] 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wish that commenting would automatically upvote a post. It's far too late to fix the use of an upvote as approval of subject discussion and not just an agree arrow, but I often...no, I almost always forget to upvote the initial topic even after leaving a few paragraphs. One would hope whatever algorithm is used also considers activity and number of comments in a rating or suggesting it to others.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I often just forget to upvote generally. Although this could lead to argumentative posters making troll posts, getting engagement and trending just because people reply to them.

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

Might also discourage people from feeding the trolls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

There ate multiple algorithms, but I don't think any of them account for both votes and comments.. I might be wrong though.

Tangent: the "scaled* algorithm, which normalises post ranks by the popularity of the community they're posted to, is excellent. I recommend everyone use it as their default.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

One feature I liked about Kbin was that my own comments weren’t upvoted automatically

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

Kbin didn't federate downvotes which was pretty funny. No one from it knew when they were being downvoted by lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why the past tense? Is Kbin dead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago