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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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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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[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] Bonus@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Can't say I ever cared about karma. Lemmy reminds me of stripped down original reddit. Almost original. I remember when Reddit didn't even have thumbnails. Back then, there was a thing called memepool. You didn't know what you were going to get when you clicked on links on either site. There was a lot of fun unpredictable content and Reddit still meant you read it and we're vouching for it. It was like this whole world of quality stuff from really smart people. Thumbnails and subreddits ushered in a series of trashings and lead to intense divisiveness reddit never recovered from. . .

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 3 days ago

Oh my sweet summer child,!

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