The thing I like most about the fediverse, unlike reddit, is that people are genuinely posting things they care about or like, rather than posting to be a karma whore. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve posted in reddit and it instantly gets stolen and used in another sub simply to get easy karma. It’s refreshing to not have that here. That’s all. Thanks!
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The potential.
Free open source software running on a decentralising protocol. We can own or join our own little corner. We can make our own platforms. We can be free of ads and profit margins.
I have seen some people carry their karma whoring ways over from reddit. It’s been a few people posting the same anti-reddit article to 17 different communities. But, I just blocked them and moved on, I love how I can defederate from users or communities that are filled with low quality karma grabs.
I think what you have observed is short-lived. I am starting to notice a lot of poor reddit etiquette showing up more and more here.
One of my huge pet peeves is multiple people posting the exact same link to the exact same article into the exact same community over the span of several hours. I’m not sure if they are doing it for the attention, if they are narcissists and assume that because they just discovered it that no one else might have posted it first, or if they are just too damned self-centered to quickly check the latest couple dozen posts to make sure they aren’t posting a dupe.
Unfortunately, I observed the same behavior late last. night. I saw the same article posted in five different communities from the same person. I thought we had something better going here. I hope the few who are exhibiting this behavior can get it under control and leave that mentality behind.
I fully expect mass posting like that will be the norm on Lemmy, even more than it was on Reddit. Now instead of a handful of subreddits that cover similar context, there are also a handful of communities on here with literally the exact same name. As annoying as it is to see a bunch of duplicate posts in my feed, I can’t say I blame users for doing that when communities are often fragmented here.
I really think despite that we don’t have overall karma, people still get off on getting highly rated posts. I mostly lurked on Reddit, but would occasionally post something and I can’t deny that I enjoyed seeing the post get a lot of upvotes. But here on Lemmy, I became a mod of a couple communities and I post a lot and I’ve noticed I don’t even pay attention to the scores at all. I think one reason is since I post a lot more, I don’t pay attention, and also the scores don’t generally get as high, due to the smaller userbase. But I agree, people need to get out of that mentality of trying to get the highest rated post scores. It really makes it much more enjoyable to get involved in discussions, IMO.
I was posting something that just contained the same word as another post in that community and I got a popup letting me know. I don’t know if that’s a setting the mods turn on. Hang on, I mod the community I’m talking about and I didn’t do it, so no… I’m using lemmy.world on PC with no apps, if that makes a difference.
I think it’s a combination of all of the reasons you stated AND the sorting algorithm not being the same as some of us are used to on Reddit.
I’m still getting used to finding content I haven’t seen when I’m not toggled to “Subscribed”.
A way to mark something as “read” and not have it show back up for me unless I’ve posted in it would be handy, but as with all new paradigms, I’ll get used to this one eventually and likely wonder how I ever did things the “old way”.
I understand what you mean, but I followed mostly selfhosting, emulation and handheld subreddits, I barely ever browsed r/all to begin with, and I still feel my feed wasn’t full of karma whores.
When I truly believe Lemmy content has more quality so far compared with Reddit it still miss lots of topics that interest me.
Posting stuff one genuinely cares about happens on reddit too in niche communities.
(looks at dwayne the rock johnson 3d prints in r/3dprinting)
(looks at posts that suggest that someone bought an entire games collection for cheap on r/nds)I can still vouch for r/daria to not be full of karmawhoring and i’m raising a Daria community here too.
Establishing a count system for user profile will provide more competitive
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I don’t know what I expected…
