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.

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[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Can you explain what you mean with farming upvotes makes sense? There is no part of the algorithm that takes into account how many upvotes the OP recently got, or is there?

[–] gon@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

I think they meant on a post-by-post basis. You can't farm account karma, but you can farm upvotes on individual posts, for ego, I guess...

There is the vibe-check on Lemmy, though. I don't believe the algorithm takes that into account.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 points 8 hours ago

There is no algorithm at all as far as I know, for better or worse. The closest is the "Scaled" sorting option, which takes community size into account to help boost smaller communities. But I'd hardly call that an algorithm, even though it technically is.

There is no point in farming upvotes here apart from feeding your brain's dopamine response.