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Thoughts on new Lemmy features to boost intent for posting more? (feddit.org)

submitted 19 hours ago by arakhis_@feddit.org to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9451996

Thoughts on features to boost intent for posting more?

Like a karma system of that other forum website.

I currently miss a point system to motivate me that shows people via my profile how much I could help by posting/commenting. There's no system to create such feedback currently on Lemmy.

Are there statements by the creators of this platform about that?

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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't miss karma being a thing (and people focusing on growing it by pleasing as many as possible, instead of focusing on content) but I'm also past the age of getting good/bad grades for doing my homework or for participating in class ;)

I'm pretty sure introducing karma will boost low effort reddit-like posts. And those don't need any encouragement, imho.

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

low effort reddit-like posts

Let's say Lemmy becomes the biggest platform for forum like exchange. Will a lack in karma system change low effort issues since we still have a upvote based community systems? Where bots could influence certain opinions that show up on your feed

My current impressions:

Art communities sadly seem so lackluster - "like why share" is the vibe Im getting. I just want a strong unique selling point (USP) compared to reddit, because lemmy could replace (not saying it should copy) reddit, like the good parts, and show how reddit is in essence flawed like x and meta for example.

Or communities showing political/global media of what people recorded (i.e. some protest in istanbul right now, or serbia using sonic weaponry at a demonstration), even more regional like r/de always gives you a very complete feeling slice of german articles out there and its always rated so regularly. You can see like the top 5 publications of the day and then discuss it/see how people feel about certain things, that you wouldnt think about just reading the article.

I just fear the personal motivation for users might be too low for such feed activity, and often I notive like 10 people upvoting and not a single comment, so more reactionary - maybe its just total users tho what im missing..

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

like r/de always gives you a very complete feeling slice of german articles out there and its always rated so regularly.

!dach@feddit.org is quite active, same for !france@jlai.lu , but you need to enable German and French in your settings

Same for !europe@feddit.org . I'm not sure news is what we are missing.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I just want a strong unique selling point (USP) compared to reddit

The unique selling point of Lemmy at the moment is not getting site banned for upvotes like on Reddit