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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.

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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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Be the change you want to see.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

that's number of comments, not total points.

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

Impossible. I don't comment that much

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

idk what to tell you, but that is what that number means. Here is mine, you can see it shows a 1 as ive only ever made 1 post, and not a 3 for the number of points on my only post. Also im not sure this applies to other lemmy instances, might just be a lemm.ee thing.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I put an edit since many had the same rebuttal.

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

We have that here too. FlyingSquid comes to mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 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?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It's one of two things

  1. Your app doesn't hide things that are marked as read. This is typically a setting you can choose.

  2. The same content is being posted to multiple communities or multiple instances (if you are watching global feed). This is not something that can be fixed I think.

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

I have the same issue

Sometimes it’s the multiple posting, sometimes it’s just old posts that are still active and getting comments. Like 2 day old posts. Since they get so many comments still it’s likely that lots of other people are seeing them too

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

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

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

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

I did count my likes from some top liked comments or posts of mine before. It kinda feels the same as karma, to me.

I'd say that people always find some way to get addicted to something, in whatever.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (5 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.

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