As a long time Reddit user, there’s something about Lemmy and the fediverse that feels really refreshing and new. I think it has to do with a few things…
- People are more respectful of each other and interested in discussion and being social.
- Less trolls (users are probably older?)
- Due to it not being absolutely huge, I feel like people will actually see my posts and comments instead of being lost in a sea of content. I suppose once Lemmy grows this will change, however the cool thing about the fediverse are the new servers. So you can stick to the server when you want smaller community discussion and go to “all” when you want more populated threads.
- The clean UI feels refreshing and clean, almost like the early internet.
What have you noticed? Do you find it refreshing too?
I think the lack of a karma equivalent, and thus karma farming, results in much more thought out and unique posts/comments.
Torn between replying with “this!” as a meme about how generic responses like that are used to farm karma and making a joke about how “of course someone with only 1 reputation point would say there’s no karma equivalent.” Idk how reputation works and if its only internal to instances or a shared across instances. But its possible it does become a karma equivalent in the future.
Reputation seems borked at the moment, it counts downvotes but not upvotes so I’m sitting at -34 right now lol
Boosting is the only way for reputation to go up. I boosted you for science.
I’m not sure I feel comfortable taking advice from a person with -51 reputation…
Ooo everybody come look at Mr. Non-controversial over here with his +40 reputation.
Do you mind explaining what boosting is for us on Lemmy?
It adds your comment to my profile feed if anyone is following me. I think it’s a way to work better with Mastodon like sites but I don’t really know. I understand that @ernest is in the midst of changing that.