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Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by AB7ORH7D@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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As a long time Reddit user, there's something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things...

  1. People are more respectful of each other and interested in discussion and being social.
  2. Less trolls (users are probably older?)
  3. Due to it not being absolutely huge, I feel like people will actually see my posts and comments instead of being lost in a sea of content. I suppose once Lemmy grows this will change, however the cool thing about the fediverse are the new servers. So you can stick to the server when you want smaller community discussion and go to "all" when you want more populated threads.
  4. The clean UI feels refreshing and clean, almost like the early internet.

What have you noticed? Do you find it refreshing too?

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[โ€“] chaddy@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think the lack of a karma equivalent, and thus karma farming, results in much more thought out and unique posts/comments.

[โ€“] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Torn between replying with "this!" as a meme about how generic responses like that are used to farm karma and making a joke about how "of course someone with only 1 reputation point would say there's no karma equivalent." Idk how reputation works and if its only internal to instances or a shared across instances. But its possible it does become a karma equivalent in the future.

[โ€“] chaddy@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol, I think the first one would definitely have flown over my head without explanation. Also, I don't know if it's instance specific, but I can't seem to find my reputation on my profile, neither on feddit.de/lemmy-ui or Jerboa. Where do you get that information?

Maybe it could be useful for moderators or admins to access that information? But that also poses the risk of accounts "reputation-farming" like on reddit to sell the account to some bot-farm that uses it for astro-turfing or sth similar.

[โ€“] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not 100% sure, but I think the reputation thing is a Kbin feature, at least everyone I've seen mention it so far has been on a Kbin instance.

I do not think Lemmy has the same thing, but don't quote me on that!

[โ€“] DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reputation seems borked at the moment, it counts downvotes but not upvotes so I'm sitting at -34 right now lol

[โ€“] Kantiberl@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Boosting is the only way for reputation to go up. I boosted you for science.

[โ€“] ivanafterall@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not sure I feel comfortable taking advice from a person with -51 reputation...

[โ€“] Kantiberl@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Ooo everybody come look at Mr. Non-controversial over here with his +40 reputation.

[โ€“] DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

We have learned from experience.

[โ€“] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Interesting! I gave you a boost as well, also for science. Funny how we all seem to be tinkering and figuring what does what here.

[โ€“] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is a thing called Reputation (IIRC) tucked away in your profile. Im not sure if that's a true karma equivalent. Also not sure what you can do with it.

[โ€“] awsamation@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It doesn't matter what you can do with it. You couldn't really do anything with karma either.