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Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content (feddit.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by wittycomputer@feddit.org to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Just value content

Lemming36: Here is a high quality 46 MB photo of a shiny bat poop straight to .world HDD

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[-] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 5 points 7 months ago

Shit, I'm sorry. I had close to 1m before I bailed. It was all quality comment karma though. I just have no life.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 7 months ago

Oh my sweet summer child,!

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 7 months ago

Thanks, kind stranger! Here's an updoot and Reddit Silver!

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There can be many reasons reddit sucks, but I'd argue its mostly because Spez is a mega douche and Reddit was captured by mods who had agendas and just silenced anyone who disagreed. Or they were paid to do it.

[-] BeiYang@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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?

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[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I think the only way to really fix this is to make votes a limited asset that accounts have. There are forums where this has worked okay: bodybuilding.com forums has a reputation system where accounts are limited in what they can give to other voters.

As long as “karma” is unlimited it suffers from the same problems whether you count it in aggregate or not. As some other commenters have said, people still seek validation in individual comments. I know because I do too.

[-] Emmie@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Seeking validation apparently is core human trait so I am not sure if it is possible to avoid it at all. Still as you probably know social media corporations keep us hooked to their crack using it and amplifying the base value

Funnily, ironically some Lemmy apps copy Reddit UX (that was designed by psychology experts) and thus make it more addictive than it is on the web app.

Best bet to avoid social candy crack is to use lemmy from terminal if that is possible, or default site

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