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Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content

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  • B [email protected]

    Does that feel good?

    I just want the absolute value of my comment's karma to be high. That means it has been read at least that many times.

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    #238

    Oh, so if it's going to be down voted anyway, then a lot of down votes feels good? Guess that's more validating than a middling response

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldG [email protected]

      Hey, I've got unpopular opinions. No, it's usually someone who is trolling.

      It's far from perfect but of the people I've seen, they are usually so bad that they are damaging dialogue, not fostering it.

      Usually it's eventually reversed if they are not a troll. People here are pretty decent and upvote most things.

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      Hey, I’ve got unpopular opinions. No, it’s usually someone who is trolling.

      A lot of people can't tell the difference and just assume that someone with an unpopular opinion must be trolling.

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      • ? Guest

        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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        #240

        Then why are there so many beans and jeans on my front page?

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          They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

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          They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

          Then they are unfit to be moderators because they are subtracting value from free discussions. I would much rather have to little moderation than lazy heavy handed moderation.

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          • B [email protected]

            They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

            Then they are unfit to be moderators because they are subtracting value from free discussions. I would much rather have to little moderation than lazy heavy handed moderation.

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            #242

            In this case, its automation. It's also a partial response to Reddits ineffectual moderator system. No-one is gunna spend all day monitoring comments from trolls and spammers on basic communities usually flooded with comments. I can't see anyone especially truly engaged to do so in (for example, and I have no idea if these communities do this) in r/aww or r/pics or r/jokes or r/videos, which are just pretty basic subreddits that aren't really hobbyist.

            Whereas say, r/AskHistorians or some video game community or a music subgenre community likely will by their hobbyist nature attract more engaged moderators.

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            • S [email protected]

              Then why are there so many beans and jeans on my front page?

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              #243

              Just Value Content

              Literally right there in the title.

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              • rickyrigatoni@lemm.eeR [email protected]

                Well guess I'm not using piefed. Still pissed about getting automatically temp muted on reddit years ago just for saying I didn't like skyrim that much.

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                #244

                oh ok so we're just allowing straight hate speech now cool

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                • ? Guest

                  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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                  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.

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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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                    #246

                    I just wanted to let everyone know there is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.

                    None of these imaginary points fucking matter.

                    So why don't you do yourself a favor and uncheck these boxes and not give a fuck what others think about your comment.

                    I know I have.

                    (Lemmy is rad as fuck)

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                    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deG [email protected]

                      I just hope that Lemmy stays nice. I don't want it to reach 100 million+ users and be overwhelmed with RAGEBAIT and scams.

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                      Instances will rise and fall, but we can always just crack open a cold one with each other and open a new instance.

                      No more switching services... finally!

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                      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deG [email protected]

                        I just hope that Lemmy stays nice. I don't want it to reach 100 million+ users and be overwhelmed with RAGEBAIT and scams.

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                        Bots are already the ones posting most of the articles here. Disguised #ads are also on Lemmy and will become a problem if ever Lemmy grows substantially (which I don't believe will ever happen).

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                        • ivanafterall@lemmy.worldI [email protected]

                          oh ok so we're just allowing straight hate speech now cool

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                          Waking up to this message made me scared of what sleepy me said last night lmao

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                          • ultragigagigantic@lemmy.mlU [email protected]

                            I just wanted to let everyone know there is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.

                            None of these imaginary points fucking matter.

                            So why don't you do yourself a favor and uncheck these boxes and not give a fuck what others think about your comment.

                            I know I have.

                            (Lemmy is rad as fuck)

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                            I upvoted you for what it's worth. More worthless karma for you

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                            • T [email protected]

                              idk about you but psychologically i never chceckef my ksrma scote but still pay some attention to how an individual comment/submission is perceived. cuz i took the time to write it and it's cool if people like/understand it and it's "important" if they dont (at least important to my rat brains)

                              as a departure from this mentality, i will not edit the typos

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                              I do this. I don't pay it too much mind, but it's helpful for seeing which posts or comments gain more traction.

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                              • A [email protected]

                                Is this really the case? I find this unexpected. Lemmy seems to be friendly to the LGBTQ people, namely trans.

                                If what you say is true, we should probably address it somehow.

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                                Depends on the instance.

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                                  Maybe. They might also mean you're an idiot.

                                  Slashdot used to have a multidimensional voting system that would allow you to up or down vote something based on whether it was funny/insightful/correct, etc (can't remember the dimension). I wish we had something like that. Sometimes it would be useful to mark a comment as "funny, but also wrong"

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                                  Welcome: Quarkvotes
                                  Up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom

                                  Up/down = Usefulness or relation to topic
                                  Charm/strange = Agree/accurate or not
                                  Top/bottom = Love/Hate

                                  I vote you up-charm-top, btw

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                                    Welcome: Quarkvotes
                                    Up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom

                                    Up/down = Usefulness or relation to topic
                                    Charm/strange = Agree/accurate or not
                                    Top/bottom = Love/Hate

                                    I vote you up-charm-top, btw

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                                    Not a bad set! I would add something related to "funny".

                                    Also, separating agree (opinion) from accurate (factual) would be nice. But I guess you gotta keep it somewhat simple.

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                                    • H [email protected]

                                      Sadly Reddit has been toeing the line and has been banning any accounts for "threatening violence" for any support of Luigi no matter how peaceful or non-violent or ANY criticism of Elon The Musky Husky

                                      Heck even before my account was banned I was warned for "advocating violence" just for saying "It's understandable to wanna punch Nazis"

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                                      You can't ask a social network to support ideas that involve violence and murders.
                                      I know Luigi is a hero for many but it was an illegal action. You can think any monarchy is anacronyst nowadays, but you can't go and shoot any of those useless humans that think they can be called king or queen like we were living in mediaeval times

                                      And remember that any insurance system is not that different from a national system, you can convert one into the other any time.
                                      The problems is with shitty brains which can go and spread their shitty ideas either here or there. Since national system can be so corrupted, it's ok to have a private way to clean them up from time to time.

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                                      • suoko@feddit.itS [email protected]

                                        You can't ask a social network to support ideas that involve violence and murders.
                                        I know Luigi is a hero for many but it was an illegal action. You can think any monarchy is anacronyst nowadays, but you can't go and shoot any of those useless humans that think they can be called king or queen like we were living in mediaeval times

                                        And remember that any insurance system is not that different from a national system, you can convert one into the other any time.
                                        The problems is with shitty brains which can go and spread their shitty ideas either here or there. Since national system can be so corrupted, it's ok to have a private way to clean them up from time to time.

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                                        It's not that I want Reddit to support violence, it's that I want Reddit to support free speech

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                                        • H [email protected]

                                          It's not that I want Reddit to support violence, it's that I want Reddit to support free speech

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                                          Let me suggest you don't become too attached to a mainstream digital tool

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