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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Perhaps a creddit system (for gits and shiggles)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago

Lemmy is small enough, that without even seeing a karma total, some users have an unofficial "rapport", where I've seen them around enough to recognize whether they are the type to go against the grain, a perpetual troll, or a usually reasonable person with an unusually spicy take.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

...what do you think "karma" is?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I mean there are upvotes and downvotes so I don't know what you mean. But there isn't a real incentive to have lots of upvotes on here. I'm not even sure why karma farming even is a thing on reddit. Maybe cause you can sell the account to whatever guy wants to buy it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It’s because Reddit specifically optimizes the site so that upvotes give you the maximum dopamine and keep you hooked on it like a crack. Most corporate social media thrive on keeping their users hooked through cheap tricks.

Lemmy Marxist Leninist Stalinist Maoist dev on the other hand doesn’t care or isn’t even able to do this because he doesn’t have an army of psychology experts to design it that way

So no you don’t get anything out of karma but your brain thinks you do and every aspect of the site is built to maximise this. I hate it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I was offered $300 for my Reddit account once lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Not crazy if you want to advertise on the down low. I worked a summer once doing that shit, it's insidious. Blockers don't even block someone pretending to like a product.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Really? I have like 15 meme communities blocked, and there are comparably very few niche communities.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

With time we’ll get there! The more we slowly contribute to the niche topics, the more we’ll see these communities grow. I’m sure there are a sizable amount of people from Reddit looking for their niches on here to start growing more for them to fully hop over. I’ve got a good chunk of mine on Lemmy now, but still a handful of ones I haven’t found a comparable server for yet. If I understood running a server more I probably would have started a couple of my own for these topics.

Is there anywhere on Lemmy people can request for servers to get started? I think that would be helpful to have since missing topics are some of the barriers of entry for some people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Blocked? Why? If you don't want to see them why are you subscribed to them?

I mean if you want niche communities you create them and subscribe to them right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I just see them in the Everything feed, and if I don't block them, they seem to dominate. I'm not actually against them, but I don't want my feed to be all memes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Browsing the global/all feed is one way to find new communities, and some people just like using it in general rather than defaulting to a subs-only view.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Seems like a not so good way to me, and thats why people are complaining.

You can just look through the communities and sub to good ones.

Maybe it would be helpful to use ALL with scaled sorting. It boosts smaller communities.

I gave up using all on reddit a very long time ago, and Lemmy is basically the same.... But at least on Lemmy you have scaled sorting to try and help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Or just…browse all and then block communities you don’t want to see. Most stuff I block is furry shit. Nothing against it, I just don’t want to see it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

For what it's worth I generally agree with you, and especially think the people who treat /all as their own personal feed are nuts, but nonetheless it's something that some people do 🫠

Everyone has their own preferences about how to use things!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I usually doomscroll all. on reddit, i used to sub to subs, but on lemmy, because it's quite small, I just use all.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, lemmy suffers a lot of from this. Too many posts that try to just make the front page, too many popular communities that dominate c/all. I've even had a friend quit over this.

I genuinely miss communities about games, linguistics and niche hobbies - they just aren't as popular as news/politics/general memes and that. I do try to post them as much as i can, but since they're niche there's only so much content you can find.

I'd love for the frontpage to have some [optional, ofc] changes that encourage more of this type of content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Pretty much any game or random hobby I'm on at the moment, I could count on finding a decently populated and active Subreddit. This is what's missing from Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

For games, make sure you are subscribed to:

All are healthy and active, and I'm sure there are more. I suggest cross-posting stuff from a niche community you contribute to, to one of these, to bring traction to the smaller community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

maybe my definitions of healthy and active are extremely biased, but these communities have several days-old posts with low numbers of comments and limited reply threads. not only that, but there's lots of news articles about the industry but not much stuff about GAMES, be that random reviews, discussions, or memes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Last one seems not to exist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Why would anyone be on all? Even with reddit I I quit going to all probably 10 years ago....

And don't let my Lemmy age fool you, I drop my account every 6 to 8 months. It took my a lot longer to figure that out on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Ok...then what do you recommend for a varied random feed of news and posts from various communities?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

For me it's to find new content (i block most news/politics communities since they're most of c/all) but there's a lot of attention and eyes to be gained from all.

But most of this, as i said; is buried by the generic popular content.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Well yeah, that's what ALL is right? The most generic stuff. You can browse communities and subscribe as needed.

If you are going to use all It might help to enable scaled sorting.

It boosts small communities in the sort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I'll try, thank you 🙂

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