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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] 11 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

I just hope that Lemmy stays nice. I don't want it to reach 100 million+ users and be overwhelmed with RAGEBAIT and scams.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 seconds ago

Same here, I like lemmy too, I just wish more people would use it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ragebait here is saying you like Windows for its open design.

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

It will get corrupted, but we'll find the right crowd then, this shit always happens.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

yeah, and you can luckily just block their instance

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 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 5 hours ago

I put an edit since many had the same rebuttal.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 20 minutes 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.

It has already happened with this piece of cancer.

https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

Find people who have low karma

When someone is consistently getting downvoted it’s likely they are a problem. PieFed provides a list of accounts with low karma, sorted by lowest first. Clicking on their user name takes you to their profile which shows all their posts and comments in one place. Every profile has “Ban” and “Ban + Purge” buttons that have instance-wide effects and are only visible to admins.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

that's number of comments, not total points.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Impossible. I don't comment that much

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (4 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.

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