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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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[–] 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 (7 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 (2 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.

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