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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[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 13 hours ago (11 children)

Just don’t be a woman on Lemmy.

Sure, most people won’t downvote or harass you just for being a woman (a lot will.. we didn’t get the best of Reddit at all, and I doubt the new adoptees are any better…) but they will often enough make things difficult even if they aren’t actively causing problems.

But men of Lemmy (aka the vast majority of the user base since they ran off all the womenfolk) don’t care. They see that as quality control or some dumb shit, because THEY aren’t interested in woman things, so nobody should be, or they think their “as a man” comments should be important or some shit... Whatever the post is about. If it doesn’t cater to them, it can fuck right off.

Which is why cis women make up <10% of the Lemmy side of the fediverse. It’s a disaster for women here.

But I wonder how long you’ve been here. Most of the posts of this nature are from very new accounts and they don’t know the problems yet…

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

I know multiple IRL women who don’t share your complaints about Lemmy. Maybe people are shitty to you because you’re shitty to them.

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[–] BeiYang@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

I have a question though:

On Reddit the same post won't usually show up twice in my feed (unless it's a repost). So once you've seen it, Reddit notices that and kind of marks it as seen I guess.

Using Lemmy however I happen to see the same posts over and over again for days. Is there any way to fix this?

[–] g0ndii@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I would like some tips as well. Currently i’m using voyager, which has a ‚hide read‘ function (for posts you’ve opened) and other than that I swipe hide posts that i’ve „seen“ manually.

[–] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

Jerboa has an option to mark posts as read automatically (when scrolling over it)

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[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

No, there's karma. I've had more than a couple guys point out mine is negative.

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 3 points 12 hours ago

For context for the people downvoting this: Lemmy doesn't have karma, but Mbin does and it shows karma for Lemmy accounts too.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

I think some apps will request all of your comment history and manually calculate karma but it’s not tracked by lemmy

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Checks out

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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

What is this ‘evil’ flair stuff please do tell

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Boost for Lemmy lets you tag users. I gave this user the evil tag when they said something evil.

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Wooo, that’s super cool. Do I have any tags? Tell me tell me. Make a pink one

Tho these tags are shared yes? Imagine shared community built tags like some yelp reviews of people. Actually that’s a terrible idea so it will probably happen.

Augmented Reality Community Driven People Scoring System.
I don’t talk to anyone lower than 7 or who was marked by users as

Better yet. Automatically ban anyone with lower than 5

Ugh too much coffee, too many stimulants

Still it sucks so that’s probably the future. you can’t even opt out because even if you don’t have the AR glasses everyone else has.

The only hope for the future is to be a hacker. Achieve a cozy AI-proof job as a security expert and use the skills to enhance your life. If you are able to find new exploits that will always be valuable skill netting cash one white hat way or black hat another and rather hard to replicate for LLMs which excel at repetitive patterns. So whether you are making wannacry 2.0 or blackmailing companies into hiring you I think this is relatively future proof area.

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago

That’s right! I said good shit in tech posts that was worth upvoting so others can see. Then there was an bad comment I wrote in patientgaming that deserved the downvotes and not worth reading.

[–] Bonus@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Can't say I ever cared about karma. Lemmy reminds me of stripped down original reddit. Almost original. I remember when Reddit didn't even have thumbnails. Back then, there was a thing called memepool. You didn't know what you were going to get when you clicked on links on either site. There was a lot of fun unpredictable content and Reddit still meant you read it and we're vouching for it. It was like this whole world of quality stuff from really smart people. Thumbnails and subreddits ushered in a series of trashings and lead to intense divisiveness reddit never recovered from. . .

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

We have that here too. FlyingSquid comes to mind.

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