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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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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?

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was offered $300 for my Reddit account once lmao

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's batshit crazy

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Not crazy if you want to advertise on the down low. I worked a summer once doing that shit, it's insidious. Blockers don't even block someone pretending to like a product.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And yet for some reason I spend a lot of time on Lemmy

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah... I guess stimulants today were truly stimulating looking by the white hot intensity of my comments lol

ommgg, they are unreadable, so exhausting to even look at