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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[–] BeiYang@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 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?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

It's one of two things

Your app doesn't hide things that are marked as read. This is typically a setting you can choose.
The same content is being posted to multiple communities or multiple instances (if you are watching global feed). This is not something that can be fixed I think.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Apps could save a list of visited posts; and check for every post in your feed whether you had already visited a crosspost of it before. But it'd have to be implemented i guess.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 18 hours ago

I've heard certain clients or servers are able to spot crossposts and reposts, and mark them as crossposts/reposts. I definitely know that the app I use does not.

I think it's doable. It'd likely require hashing posts so that Lemmy apps can keep track of those hashes.

[–] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I have the same issue

Sometimes it’s the multiple posting, sometimes it’s just old posts that are still active and getting comments. Like 2 day old posts. Since they get so many comments still it’s likely that lots of other people are seeing them too

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

In addition to what's been said, I prefer to sort by top 6 hours in everything, and I get plenty of good fresh content all the time that way.

[–] g0ndii@feddit.org 2 points 23 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 22 hours ago

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

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 23 hours ago

I've never had that experience with reddit. I see so much again