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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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

We have plenty of astroturfing bots & powermods here. Once karma becomes a worthwhile metric for some to filter by, it’ll be abused & manipulated here, too.

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

For all the problems with karma it did allow for effective filtering. With most accounts on Lemmy being harder to create with captcha and approval it might not be needed

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 25 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

idk about you but psychologically i never chceckef my ksrma scote but still pay some attention to how an individual comment/submission is perceived. cuz i took the time to write it and it's cool if people like/understand it and it's "important" if they dont (at least important to my rat brains)

as a departure from this mentality, i will not edit the typos

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I liked my karma back on my old reddit account (before being banned from supporting Luigi), but that is because I had the account for 12 years and invested too much time into it.

So far I'm enjoying the laid back nature of lemmy. Hopefully there will be more engagement, maybe some UI updates too. But overall I'm liking the switch. The conversations and posts feel more real.

[–] roguesignal@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

I got banned for my support of Luigi as well. 15 year account over there. Sometimes you gotta say goodbye to a friend.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Lemmy still has comment karma. Mine's at 1500.

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 15 points 13 hours ago

The lack of karma is definitely a plus. Zionist trolls can downvote all they want, no one cares. In fact, there isn’t much of an incentive for any to invest in “downvote farms”.

[–] BeiYang@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (7 children)

I have a question though:

On Reddit the same post won't usually show up twice in my feed (unless it's a repost). So once you've seen it, Reddit notices that and kind of marks it as seen I guess.

Using Lemmy however I happen to see the same posts over and over again for days. Is there any way to fix this?

[–] g0ndii@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I would like some tips as well. Currently i’m using voyager, which has a ‚hide read‘ function (for posts you’ve opened) and other than that I swipe hide posts that i’ve „seen“ manually.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

Jerboa has an option to mark posts as read automatically (when scrolling over it)

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

I've never had that experience with reddit. I see so much again

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[–] AnarchiaKapitany@lemm.ee 48 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

Oh my sweet summer child. EVERY new service and SocMed site starts out like this. Fresh, fun, and working properly. Until the masses show up. That's when it goes to shit.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Eternal december.

I feel like white-list federation can fix it.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You could do that if you wanted, but if we had these moderation things will probably be fine. It's also Eternal September

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

Damn. My brain is a bit slow today.

But can moderation tools really fix the problem of low quality content?

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

We have that here too. FlyingSquid comes to mind.

[–] remon@ani.social 23 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

"Karma" is just a counter of a user's recieved votes. It still exists on lemmy, most clients just choose to not display it.

Also where is this "value content" supposed to be?

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Our value comes from our superior bean-based posting economy.

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[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Quality content? You mean the exact same stuff that’s on Reddit, often copied directly from Reddit?

800,000 “Trump bad! Look at this latest bad thing Elong did!” posts a day is not quality content

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 30 points 19 hours ago (8 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.

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