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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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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 hours 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.

[–] Sine_Fine_Belli@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

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

[–] wittycomputer@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 29 points 7 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 4 points 3 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.

[–] RoamingWanderer@mander.xyz 25 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jakeyounglol@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

yeah, and you can luckily just block their instance

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[–] tauren@lemm.ee 12 points 7 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.

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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 18 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.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 59 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.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

that's number of comments, not total points.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Impossible. I don't comment that much

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 1 points 28 minutes ago

You guys are both wrong. It's the number times in life that you've farted and lied about it.

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