this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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I don't miss karma being a thing (and people focusing on growing it by pleasing as many as possible, instead of focusing on content) but I'm also past the age of getting good/bad grades for doing my homework or for participating in class ;)
I'm pretty sure introducing karma will boost low effort reddit-like posts. And those don't need any encouragement, imho.
Let's say Lemmy becomes the biggest platform for forum like exchange. Will a lack in karma system change low effort issues since we still have a upvote based community systems? Where bots could influence certain opinions that show up on your feed
My current impressions:
Art communities sadly seem so lackluster - "like why share" is the vibe Im getting. I just want a strong unique selling point (USP) compared to reddit, because lemmy could replace (not saying it should copy) reddit, like the good parts, and show how reddit is in essence flawed like x and meta for example.
Or communities showing political/global media of what people recorded (i.e. some protest in istanbul right now, or serbia using sonic weaponry at a demonstration), even more regional like r/de always gives you a very complete feeling slice of german articles out there and its always rated so regularly. You can see like the top 5 publications of the day and then discuss it/see how people feel about certain things, that you wouldnt think about just reading the article.
I just fear the personal motivation for users might be too low for such feed activity, and often I notive like 10 people upvoting and not a single comment, so more reactionary - maybe its just total users tho what im missing..
[email protected] is quite active, same for [email protected] , but you need to enable German and French in your settings
Same for [email protected] . I'm not sure news is what we are missing.
lots of holes compared to the subs on reddit. I feel like important headlines are just missing and its more niche posts here. which is sad because I really like photon/lemmy so far!
Maybe these sites need a repost bot for at least like the top10 daily posts from the sub - I know its a very heated topic, just wanted to see how others would feel about different approaches
I follow /r/buyfromEU quite closely, and repost to [email protected] , I can tell you most of the important stuff is here
r/de has alot of daily "impactful" headlines/news/articles that I dont see on dach and am not too engaged in to post (am not confident enough into politics to create post/find articles)
and like international media posts like videos of current demonstrations in i.e. serbia is what Im personally missing after a couple days of using this platform (pretty intensly tho)