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Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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] 9 points 1 week 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] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have nine up votes for this comment.

Can see it on boost for Lemmy.

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

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] 3 points 1 week ago

Ah, i see now what you're saying now. I'm sorry for being thick.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week 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.

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

Where can I see my total number of likes on Facebook?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.