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Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit? (self.asklemmy)
submitted 1 year ago by AB7ORH7D to c/[email protected]
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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€“] potterman28wxcv 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

One key difference I found is the lack of user karma. You have no incentive to post something "just to get karma" because there is no global karma on your profile.

This encourages to post what you want to post instead of posting something that someone posted years ago because it's easy free karma

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just noticed that thanks to your comment. I hope it stays that way on Lemmie - karma farming leads to a lot of low quality content, including bot reposts

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If Lemmy accounts with a plausible history ever become valuable like Reddit accounts are, we could see the same behaviour without karma just to build up a history. But for now that seems a long way off.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I won't lie my first reaction when I figured that out was negative (oh my god but then how will I keep track of how much people love my comments..) but the more I think about it and use Lemmy the more I like it, like a weight lifted off my shoulders.

And what you said, no point to being a karma fiend when there's no counting, so a lot less easy karma grabs going around.

[โ€“] B20bob 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah to be honest I never even looked into my karma, I didn't even understand it my first few years on Reddit, so being that there's no karma here doesn't hurt my feelings at all. I kinda feel like it is a good thing actually.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I got to agree. The first thing I did was looking for my karma on my profile but then noticed quickly that it actually doesn't matter. But has it the same addiction like effect in the long run? At least I can still see people enjoying a well though out comment, which is most of the joy.