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.

  • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    16 days ago

    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

    • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      You mean the exact same stuff that’s on Reddit, often copied directly from Reddit?

      No. We mean all the stuff that Lemmy gets that Reddit either doesn’t get at all or gets a day later than Lemmy.

      “Trump bad! Look at this latest bad thing Elong did!” posts a day is not quality content

      This bad thing that Trump did looks like very worthwhile content.

      https://lemmy.world/post/26990437

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I mean there are upvotes and downvotes so I don’t know what you mean. But there isn’t a real incentive to have lots of upvotes on here. I’m not even sure why karma farming even is a thing on reddit. Maybe cause you can sell the account to whatever guy wants to buy it?

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
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      17 days ago

      It’s because Reddit specifically optimizes the site so that upvotes give you the maximum dopamine and keep you hooked on it like a crack. Most corporate social media thrive on keeping their users hooked through cheap tricks.

      Lemmy Marxist Leninist Stalinist Maoist dev on the other hand doesn’t care or isn’t even able to do this because he doesn’t have an army of psychology experts to design it that way

      So no you don’t get anything out of karma but your brain thinks you do and every aspect of the site is built to maximise this. I hate it

  • henry1917@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Honestly, karma is just for getting started on reddit. Certain subreddits, require your account to exist and have a certain amount of karma to “validate” it. I don’t think people care about getting karma beyond that point.

  • remon@ani.socialEnglish
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    17 days ago

    “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?

  • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Shit, I’m sorry. I had close to 1m before I bailed. It was all quality comment karma though. I just have no life.

  • Damaskox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days 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.

  • AnarchiaKapitany@lemm.eeEnglish
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    17 days ago

    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.

    • noot_noot@feddit.orgEnglish
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      17 days ago

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

      • afronaut@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        17 days ago

        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.

        • finder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          16 days 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.

        • noot_noot@feddit.orgEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Yep, any sort of karma system is needed to get the masses to join somewhere. To attract the majority of people you need something that keep them interested. Karma on reddit is the same as likes on Facebook or Instagram

          • afronaut@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Horrible take. I absolutely do not give a fuck about arbitrary internet points and would like to see an open discussion without a majority bias downvoting someone into oblivion just because they disagree. For example, your comment will not be hidden just because your comment is being downvoted.

            The only thing bringing profile karma to Lemmy will do is attract botters to inflate their credibility. Those could also be used to downvote others so the botter’s comments and posts are pushed to the top.

            Again, horrible idea.

          • afronaut@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            16 days ago

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

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        16 days ago

        You could do that if you wanted, but if we had these moderation things will probably be fine. It’s also Eternal September