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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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It’s not about being elitist.

What's the difference? They shouldn't be doing it.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They will do it so long as not doing it greatly increases the amount of busywork, spam moderation and troll moderation.

Then they are unfit to be moderators because they are subtracting value from free discussions. I would much rather have to little moderation than lazy heavy handed moderation.

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

In this case, its automation. It's also a partial response to Reddits ineffectual moderator system. No-one is gunna spend all day monitoring comments from trolls and spammers on basic communities usually flooded with comments. I can't see anyone especially truly engaged to do so in (for example, and I have no idea if these communities do this) in r/aww or r/pics or r/jokes or r/videos, which are just pretty basic subreddits that aren't really hobbyist.

Whereas say, r/AskHistorians or some video game community or a music subgenre community likely will by their hobbyist nature attract more engaged moderators.