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There's some misinformation floating around regarding Lemmy not having a karma system. While many have discovered otherwise, this is for those who may not have.
While it's not exposed in the Lemmy default user interface, Lemmy does have a fully functional karma system and it is visible in third party clients such as WefWef and Memmy.
Do with that what you will.
I think I will do nothing with that information.
Fantastic!
Upvoted for visibility! 🤪
Welcome to Lemmy where everything is made up and the Karma doesn’t matter.
Well said.
Thus the tradition was carried over from the dark place. Go back? Namaste.
Upvotes are useful for determining what people like and dislike so you can sort posts and comments
Account karma is for narcissists to masturbate about how loved they are
Hey I'm already tracking my karma, no need to convince me !
Don't threaten me with a good time!
Mine (on both 3rd party apps) are very inaccurate lol. I have a post with over 2k and it says my karma is 300
Apparently something in the 18.1 upgrades made a mess of it. I noticed someone providing a script to fix up the databases this morning
Awesome, thanks for the news! Hopefully it’ll be fixed in the next update/by my instance admin
That's a nice query!
I can only speculate, but the number may relate to when the number was fetched or the numbers from a single instance. I know the instances are independent, but rely on a number of bot like "helpers" to pass information between federated instances. I saw an issue come up when .world was scaling and the conversation went into the need to allocate more of these "helpers." The way the instance is configured to update these stats probably has an impact on what you see in an app.
Well, I completely ignored karma on Reddit for around a decade, until a friend one day pointed my huge karma out to me in a very enthusiastic way. I believe I will also ignore it here.
Are you telling me I wasted my time manually tallying up my karma with calculator to track my karma-whoring activity?
Total points comes back from an endpoint, so if you hit that endpoint it tallies it for you.
One thing I love about the fediverse is I dont have to give a fuck about karma
With Reddit, though, some subreddits required a minimum amount of karma to post, whereas if you have access to an instance you can post freely.
So it’s more a user rating of “this was good/how have you survived until this point” than a gatekeeping device: you, as a poster, can freely ignore your points and the points of others if you don’t care.
My points have reset a couple times over the last couple weeks, so they don't mean much.
Apparently "something" goofed things up with regards to the tallies with the 18.1 updates. Noticed a script that reconciled things published to Lemmy Support this morning for a short-term fix. Whether there will be a great reconciliation baked in to the system or not, in the future, remains to be seen.
I don't really care. My primary account was on vlemmy, but that seems to be dead now.
Does that karma allow me to buy NFTs, then resell them for double the price I paid, then create bots to karma farming, be called a karma whore by jealous people, grow my evil power, become the CEO of Lemmy, put ads, charge for the API so my official app is the only one allowed to work and talk to shareholders? If it doesn't allow me to do that, then there's no karma 😝
I'm a karma whore, and I love this
I bet you made this comment just to receive more upvotes.
You sir have deciphered my life purpose
I really like this system as a bonus points, a thing you gain from being an active member, I know it can be abused and bring karma-whore, but I really hope they will not remove it in the future.
Agreed. I'm not immune to the rush of seeing a post take off as a bonus reward for contributing. I also find it helpful in communties that deal in factual information as a loose system of trustworthiness.
I went the other way and configured Liftoff to not show scores anywhere. And to be honest my experience is all the better for it.
You just wanted to show off your post score, didn't you?
My "karma" got reset a few days ago. Lol.
Honestly makes no diff. But it's a little nice to see. Didn't really change my behavior. I'm just happy to be here and I am engaging more than I ever did on Reddit.
In Lemmy, karma is not important.
Alignment, however, is paramount.
Mine seems to be chaotic ADHD asshole. Wait, is this even a proper alignment?!
~~But you have to consider the difference to Reddit's karma system. If you have a high-karma account on Reddit, your comment or post trends much higher. That's not the case with Lemmy, as far as I know.~~
Apparently, I was mistaken. Sorry.
I'm pretty sure that's not true. I had 320k+ Karma on reddit when the admins banned me for participating in the protests and I regularly posted things that got very few upvotes.
Yeah that’s definitely not the case. Karma is used to determine how frequently a user can post or comment, so that bot created accounts are limited from instantly flooding a subreddit or comment thread. It isn’t visibility or automatic upvotes.
That isn’t a thing, I dislike Reddit as well but we shouldn’t start making false statements about them.
i'd been on reddit for over a decade and i never knew that.
Because it's false.
And just to make things weirder. On kbin we have up and downvotes. But it seems only upvotes come in from other platforms. I never see a post or comment with a downvote here.
