They matter in the original intention of votes: visibility.
Votes get used to sort content.
They matter in the original intention of votes: visibility.
Votes get used to sort content.
On my very first day on Lemmy, I couldn't see the comments to most posts. Luckily I found an answer to this problem that was posted over 2 years ago: I forgot to select additional languages to just “Undetermined.”
I just skimmed over the texts on the settings page and assumed “undetermined” works like with other social media sites: if I don't select anything, it shows me every language. And as communities are usually formed around a single language, it didn't seem important. This isn't the case with Lemmy. Undetermined is its own language, not a wildcard for all languages.

When users don't know how multiselect works on desktop web, they probably end up with just one language selected and miss every post that has no language set.
It's very strange.
Damn. It’s probably number of new users.
Sounds like a bug. 24 users don't write 1269 posts and 1867 comments.
#Lemmy #Statistics 2025-11-23 13:00 CET
Number of active instances: 485
Number of users: 1 373 608
Number of posts: 10 306 733
Number of comments: 27 295 850
Number of users last 4h: 24
Number of posts last 4h: 1269
Number of comments last 4h: 1867
Source: https://libera.site/item/e32ffedc-84c6-4bf8-bb32-029eb48e10c8
Oh, I think I put GoW on the wishlist because of the few hundred hours of “The Outer Worlds.”
Oh, yes. The day after the “Glitter” soundtrack was released.
He probably thinks his AI is a god because it knows how many Bs are in blueberry.
Discouraging users from reporting content could potentially be against the Apple App Store guide. I don’t understand why Reddit is doing that.
They announced that they are investigating Democrats regarding Epstein.
An investigation can prevent the release of the Epstein files, regardless of whether the president signed the bill or not.
Make a new account on Reddit, and you soon learn that votes (and therefore karma points) do matter. Even the karma in one subreddit can be relevant, so older accounts joining subreddits need to be careful not to annoy the local establishment.