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Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content (feddit.org)
submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 45 points 13 hours ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Eternal december.

I feel like white-list federation can fix it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Damn. My brain is a bit slow today.

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

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Yep, it's just a matter of time till karma system is getting implemented on here too

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

It already exists, it's just not shown.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Why make this assumption? Is there a reason you believe we need that karma system? I genuinely can’t think of any reason, outside of corporate interest to push engagement.

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

You have nine up votes for this comment.

Can see it on boost for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 28 minutes ago

Of course you can see the comment’s individual karma. But, if you got my profile or yours, there is not accumulated karma.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I genuinely can’t think of any reason, outside of corporate interest to push engagement.

On Reddit, I found that blocking people by account age and link karma noticeably improved the site. edit: For example, blocking 1 year old accounts with more than 100k link karma. /edit Mostly helped me filter out karma farmers from my feed that did nothing but repost memes or low effort shitposts.

Of course, not having total karma publicly tracked might make reposting a nonissue.