IMO The Best Thing about the Fediverse is...

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MdRuckus@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

The thing I like lost about the fediverse, unlike reddit, is that people are genuinely posting things thebly care about or like l, rather than posting to be a karma whore. I can’t tell you howany times I’ve posted in reddit and it instantly gets stolen and used in another sub simply to get easy karma. It’s refreshing to not have that here. That’s all. Thanks!

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Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have seen some people carry their karma whoring ways over from reddit. It’s been a few people posting the same anti-reddit article to 17 different communities. But, I just blocked them and moved on, I love how I can defederate from users or communities that are filled with low quality karma grabs.

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BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That's why i don't understand why people just want to make everything reddit 2. A lot of things on reddit are relicts from a cringe time, or some things that clearly didn't work. And still, people don't move on, now there is a time to not call everything porn. Foodporn earthporn, it's so dumb, but people insist. The marijuana subreddit is called trees, so every month someone can make a post about an actual tree and everyone can laugh at this very funny joke.

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- Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Mass exodus from Reddit is because of API, not because the marijuana subreddit is called trees. You think the number of users skyrocketed the day API closed because people were mad about foodporn? No.
  
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- Lodra@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Agreed. But an answer to your (rhetorical?) question. People are trying to turn lemmy into reddit 2.0 because they lost the actual reddit. Sure, many people wanted less nose and higher quality… But that’s probably not true for most people that signed up over the last month+. They just wanted a reddit alternative.
  
  I expect that much of the reddit obsession will dissipate as those users settle in and forget about reddit.
  
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kratoz29@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I understand what you mean, but I followed mostly selfhosting, emulation and handheld subreddits, I barely ever browsed r/all to begin with, and I still feel my feed wasn’t full of karma whores.

When I truly believe Lemmy content has more quality so far compared with Reddit it still miss lots of topics that interest me.

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- Haui@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Can relate. Bring em here then! Nobody keeps you from making your favorite sub on lemmy! Brave new world! :)
  
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  - SoNick@readit.buzz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    @Haui I generally agree with that sentiment, but r/emulation in particular had a great mod team that culled out the ton of low efforf posts like "I downloaded a Pokémon ROMs how do I make it work" and "some emulator just released a new version, here's my 'video showcase' that barely mentions the emulator in question. Don't forget to like and subscribe!" and so on.
    
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freamon@endlesstalk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Once, I saw an article I thought reddit might like, I checked no-one had posted it, but then when I did it said some-one had done (that very second, by some-one who posted frequently, but not from that source). The article was hours old, so I wondered if some of the karma-stealing was automated to favour certain users. Probably just a coincidence, but it’s nice to get out of ‘but what about my karma mindset?’

(For any worried readers, fear not - I posted a comment in the guy’s post which got about half the karma the post did, so all wasn’t lost)

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MyFairJulia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Posting stuff one genuinely cares about happens on reddit too in niche communities.

(looks at dwayne the rock johnson 3d prints in r/3dprinting)
(looks at posts that suggest that someone bought an entire games collection for cheap on r/nds)

I can still vouch for r/daria to not be full of karmawhoring and i’m raising a Daria community here too.

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xptiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Establishing a count system for user profile will provide more competitive ~~fake and shitty~~ chasing posts and comments. Better without

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BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That's why i don't understand why people just want to make everything reddit 2. A lot of things on reddit are relicts from a cringe time, or some things that clearly didn't work. And still, people don't move on, now there is a time to not call everything porn. Foodporn earthporn, it's so dumb, but people insist. The marijuana subreddit is called trees, so every month someone can make a post about an actual tree and everyone can laugh at this very funny joke.

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