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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.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 175 points 1 year ago

I think I will do nothing with that information.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 29 points 1 year ago
[-] 70ms@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago

Upvoted for visibility! 🤪

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You have over 2000 points! Nice work bean!

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, we can get beans for this?

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[-] gdbjr@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Welcome to Lemmy where everything is made up and the Karma doesn’t matter.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 9 points 1 year ago
[-] taanegl@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Thus the tradition was carried over from the dark place. Go back? Namaste.

[-] Poob@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Hey I'm already tracking my karma, no need to convince me !

[-] veroxii@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Don't threaten me with a good time!

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[-] Someology@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] zsnell02@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

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

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] zsnell02@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks for the news! Hopefully it’ll be fixed in the next update/by my instance admin

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

That's a nice query!

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 31 points 1 year ago

Are you telling me I wasted my time manually tallying up my karma with calculator to track my karma-whoring activity?

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Total points comes back from an endpoint, so if you hit that endpoint it tallies it for you.

[-] teacosts@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

One thing I love about the fediverse is I dont have to give a fuck about karma

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[-] Username02@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Karma is about which faction will turn hostile to you.

[-] irkli@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Tell me more, so I can love you or hate you.

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[-] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Plus, at least in the web interface, there no cumulative total of karma for an account, just on individual posts and comments.

[-] Ignacio@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 😝

[-] Encode1307@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

My points have reset a couple times over the last couple weeks, so they don't mean much.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Encode1307@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I don't really care. My primary account was on vlemmy, but that seems to be dead now.

[-] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

In Lemmy, karma is not important.

Alignment, however, is paramount.

Mine seems to be chaotic ADHD asshole. Wait, is this even a proper alignment?!

[-] HeavyRust@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Krafting@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] juansero29@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm a karma whore, and I love this

[-] Rednax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I bet you made this comment just to receive more upvotes.

[-] juansero29@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You sir have deciphered my life purpose

[-] mintiefresh@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
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[-] chtk@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Does it have any effect - e.g. on the visibility of posts? I don't care about karma, but I do wish the web UI would hide comments with large numbers of downvotes.

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[-] wmrch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

You just wanted to show off your post score, didn't you?

[-] peterpan520@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~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.

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] substill@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Fingerthief@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

That isn’t a thing, I dislike Reddit as well but we shouldn’t start making false statements about them.

[-] juliebean@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

i'd been on reddit for over a decade and i never knew that.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Because it's false.

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