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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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago (26 children)

I don't get the karma hangup thing. Like.. Lemmy does have Karma, but we just don't culturally make it a priority.

[–] wittycomputer@feddit.org 17 points 22 hours ago (21 children)

The fact that it's not designed to notify you every time you get 5 upvotes changes the game. Also low Karma accounts can post in Lemmy as opposed to Reddit.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 5 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

This may not be an inherently bad thing given that low karma accounts tend to be trolls.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'd argue that low karma accounts tend to be new people or lurkers.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

By low karma I mean -100 types.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

I call that negative karma. Low karma is 0-200. 200 because that is a limit that at least some subs would use to limit new accounts from posting.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago

I always like forum setups where you had limited posting privileges until you'd had a couple of posts. Usually, they'd have an introduction category where you could post, and then comment on some other users' posts, to get your post or reputation count high enough to unlock the rest of the board.

Most Lemmy sites are small enough to have a local introduction community or other 'free' communities for newbies to dip their toes and acclimate. They'd be good places to centralize posts on how all of this works, too.

Wouldn't scale to large servers, though.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Good moderation eliminates trolls pretty quickly. Admins are incentivized to respond to users' concerns rather than a profit motive. Some communities do have a minimum account age for certain actions, and some instances require a real email address and IP address to join/participate.

Trolls are bots are rare on Lemmy. They are the norm on reddit.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The traffic on Reddit is massive for highly populated subreddits. And these subreddits that restrict low karma account activities aren't doing it for any profit motive.

I understand Lemmy isn't really big enough for this to be a concern here.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

If/when it does get big enough, what would be a good solution? It would be possible to do the same as Reddit

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