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

    • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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
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        2 years ago

        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
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    2 years 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.

    • SyJ@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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

  • gdbjr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

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

  • youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Ph03n1x443@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years 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

  • Poob@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years 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