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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.
There's multiple sorting types that you can choose for your feed. How do you want your content ordered?
Piefed implements an "attitude" system which tracks up vote ratio and a few other simple metrics mods can use to identify bad actors
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?
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.
Perhaps a creddit system (for gits and shiggles)