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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.
~~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.
Interesting. I never would've considered that since I only sort by New. Can neither confirm nor deny because I can't read Rust.
Really?
Is this something thats actually in the reddit ranking system. I.e reddit will activly push posts/comments from high karma accounts higher? Or just that high karma accounts tend to get more upvotes, etc ?
No, it’s not a real thing, I’m not sure why the commenter said that.
Here I see a new comment right above the top comment which is great because everyone has their comment up top at first. This might be a jerboa thing tho
What Lemmy does with that score is ultimately instance-specific. Over time I expect we’ll see more differentiation between instances in terms of how they treat things like that.
And just to make things weirder. On kbin we have up and downvotes. But it seems only upvotes come in from other platforms. I never see a post or comment with a downvote here.
How accurate is it? I use Memmy and after an update I went from 50ish points for comments to 3. I just checked on Wefwef and it shows that same score as well, so I'm unsure what happened. I didn't delete or change anything
I don't really care about karma, I actually would prefer if neither of them had it visible, but I'm interested to know what happened
I am extremely disappointed by this.
I thought we were free of such toxicity here.
Thank you.