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.

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[–] oce@jlai.lu 97 points 18 hours ago (14 children)

Visible post and comment scores are still going to produce some of this behavior. You may not have a total karma but people will still get dopamine from seeing their posts getting upvotes and be reinforced in doing the same again. So the same mechanisms of social pressure and uniformisation are at play. The worst being when people delete their minority opinion comments because of the downvote pressure.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You can turn vote counts off if you want to.

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 33 points 15 hours ago

Yeah but I won't because I like dopamine.

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