Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.

  • Skelectus@suppo.fiEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    A karma score encourages making poor quality meme posts and comments in large quantities to gain more fake internet points. It’s easily abused; Reddit is full of karma farming bots.

    No downvotes was also mentioned here, but I heavily disagree. Downvotes, in my opinion are mostly a positive thing. Youtube hiding downvotes was a move towards a “good vibes only, no criticism allowed” type of environment.

    Lemmy pretty much meets my ideal in this regard, it has downvotes and doesn’t have a broken social credit system.

    • assa123@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      There are posts that contain despicable information/news but are useful to know, and I always struggled between upvoting or not voting since downvoting would remove karma from OP.

      • Skelectus@suppo.fiEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Downvotes aren’t intended for the subject of the news, but for OP for making the post. If you hate the subject, I guess the correct action is to express it in the comments, or give an upvote if someone else already did.

    • ShittyKopper [they/them]@lemmy.w.on-t.workEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      There was an idea from blahaj.zone who considered making down votes enabled, but have less “weight” compared to upvotes. It sounded pretty interesting but I don’t think they implemented it yet.