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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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Down votes mean I am reaching the correct audience for that specific content

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Genuinely curious, does that mean that, for you, getting downvoted gives you dopamine/a sense of accomplishment?

Your above comment is in the negative when I'm making this comment. Does that feel good? Again, genuinely curious, hard to put a non-judgemental tone in writing.

I can't relate to that feeling, upvotes and downvotes to me show how much a community agrees or disagrees with what I've said. Either what I said isn't right for the community I posted it in or maybe just a generally unpopular opinion if I'm getting downvotes. Might make me reflect but usually no big deal, I'm mostly here for the discussions, memes and current events. Outside of trolling I don't really see how getting downvoted might be seen as a good thing by a poster.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

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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