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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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One thing to note is more often people here reply with genuine comments and in good faith. There is also a lack of clever snarky comments and baiting due to the lack of karma system.
I do snark for the art, and will live and die by it.
And the lack of karma also leads to more comments, as well. I liken lemmy to what the internet used to be like, where conversations among strangers happened regularly. It's very rewarding and wholesome. Definitely not the "antisocial media" that reddit prides itself on.
Isn't the up / downvote just like karma?
Yes, but there's no gating based on it so it doesn't mean anything and you can turn it off.
Karma on reddit tracks the accumulated likes and dislikes a user has gotten on all of their posts. Lemmy does not have a number like that.
Edit: What this means in practice is that on Reddit there are some users who make a lot of low-effort posts to get that karma number to go up and get a sense of accomplishment from that (even when they get a negative reputation among the other users), whereas on Lemmy that's not really a thing. Lemmy has power-users that become well-known, but they're more well-liked because they aim to gain actual reputation instead of just farming a karma number.
We could talli up our points but I much prefer comments under my posts the little number go up dopamine
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No they don't. You're lying and you know you're lying. You're just trying to suck up to the thread so you can get more karma. No one at Lemmy does that.
"lOok aT Me, i kNoW leMmY eTiQueTte. More oFteN PeoPle heRe rEply wiTH gEnuIne ComMenTs aNd In gOOd fAiTh." You're so full of it. Watch this, my comment will recieve more upvotes than you
bro forgot to add the /s
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Right, that's what I meant (BTW, I'm being sarcastic so I don't mean it)