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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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some communities use a "santabot" to auto-ban accounts with more downvotes than upvotes. I've never seen it happen to someone who didn't deserve it.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinions deserve to be silenced? Terrible idea. We already have way too much group think.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, I've got unpopular opinions. No, it's usually someone who is trolling.

It's far from perfect but of the people I've seen, they are usually so bad that they are damaging dialogue, not fostering it.

Usually it's eventually reversed if they are not a troll. People here are pretty decent and upvote most things.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Hey, I’ve got unpopular opinions. No, it’s usually someone who is trolling.

A lot of people can't tell the difference and just assume that someone with an unpopular opinion must be trolling.