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.
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I think I will do nothing with that information.
Fantastic!
Upvoted for visibility! 🤪
You have over 2000 points! Nice work bean!
Holy shit, we can get beans for this?
1 point = 2 beans, you will be a beautiful instrument of flatulence!
I already am.
Upbeans and downbeans…
You gained so much karma with that statement
Can’t wait to spend it on food and other essential goods!
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!
Upvotes are useful for determining what people like and dislike so you can sort posts and comments
> Things people like get more upvotes
> Upvotes give you karma
> Therefore posting things people like gives you more karma
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.
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.
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.
Ohhh that’s too bad! Isn’t it?
/s
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
WE WILL MONITOR YOU FOR YOU.
Karma is about which faction will turn hostile to you.
Tell me more, so I can love you or hate you.
Unlike other Bethesda games, In Fallout New Vegas there’s a karma system that tracks your reputation among various factions, you can help and have good karma with one group of people and consequently worsen your reputation among other opposing factions.
Dang, should this be a feature in lemmy now? Can there be a breakdown on which communities your karma comes from?
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.
Plus, at least in the web interface, there no cumulative total of karma for an account, just on individual posts and comments.
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 😝
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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.
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In Lemmy, karma is not important.
Alignment, however, is paramount.
Mine seems to be chaotic ADHD asshole. Wait, is this even a proper alignment?!
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.
https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/PersonAggregates.html
Yup, you can see it’s in the API.
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
