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 17 points 3 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 1 hour ago

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

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

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

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

[–] wittycomputer@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] 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 7 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jakeyounglol@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

yeah, and you can luckily just block their instance

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[–] tauren@lemm.ee 11 points 8 hours ago (2 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.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

Not really, because votes are only counted on a "by content" basis in any way that I'm aware of that is used

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[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 19 points 9 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 3 points 1 hour ago (2 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.

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.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 20 minutes ago

Well guess I'm not using piefed. Still pissed about getting automatically temp muted on reddit years ago just for saying I didn't like skyrim that much.

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 1 points 25 minutes ago

Wow. I definitely do not love that.

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