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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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Lemmy still relies on upvotes for ranking the feed, so, farming them makes sense, it's just isolated per each post.

And I believe the issue might get worse as Lemmy grows. The reason Reddit came up with karma and all that is because the more people you have on your platform, the more baddies you have to account for.

For now, Lemmy is small enough for a basic interpersonal reputation to mostly just work, but as it grows, we need something else. Presumably, not karma.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Piefed implements an "attitude" system which tracks up vote ratio and a few other simple metrics mods can use to identify bad actors

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

"bad actors" simply means "unpopular or politically incorrect opinions". Fuck that.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Nice! The more I hear about Piefed, the more I am inclined to check it out

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can you explain what you mean with farming upvotes makes sense? There is no part of the algorithm that takes into account how many upvotes the OP recently got, or is there?

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 1 day ago

There is no algorithm at all as far as I know, for better or worse. The closest is the "Scaled" sorting option, which takes community size into account to help boost smaller communities. But I'd hardly call that an algorithm, even though it technically is.

There is no point in farming upvotes here apart from feeding your brain's dopamine response.

[–] gon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I think they meant on a post-by-post basis. You can't farm account karma, but you can farm upvotes on individual posts, for ego, I guess...

There is the vibe-check on Lemmy, though. I don't believe the algorithm takes that into account.

[–] DogEarBookmark@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Perhaps a creddit system (for gits and shiggles)

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

There's multiple sorting types that you can choose for your feed. How do you want your content ordered?