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.

https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/PersonAggregates.html

  • Poob@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    3 年前

    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

    • SyJ@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 年前

      Yeah if people start going for Karma we’ll be plagued by “this” and stupid puns. Yesterday I saw a reddit post where the guy misspelled WiFi as Wife when explaining his problem, and then the top 10 comments were “omg dude you can’t just get a new wife” or “I wouldn’t come to Reddit for a problem with my wife”

      The actual solutions to the problem were rubbish too

  • Ph03n1x443@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 年前

    Mine (on both 3rd party apps) are very inaccurate lol. I have a post with over 2k and it says my karma is 300

    • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      3 年前

      I don’t think there is a way to remove that. “Karma” is just the sum of upvotes on all of a users’ posts/comments and that info is always accessible.

      We could make the decision to not show that value in the front-ends of course but you’ll likely have very different opinions on that and some front-ends will inevitably show karma.

      • Sckharshantallas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 年前

        But if it wasn’t available in the API then apps would have to do a fetch of all the users posts to calculate it, possibly discouraging it.

  • Someology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 年前

    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.

  • youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    3 年前

    Honestly is it even worth anything? Even on reddit I didn’t really pay attention to how much karma a user had, maybe when I wanted to check if it was a bot or something.