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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank fuck. Those stupid internet points were a weird pissing contest anyway

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yeah making discussions into addictions, not because of the subject, but because of the good boy points was always stupid.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

God I hated all the joke comments that wound up at the top with thousands of upvotes. Just one big circle jerk on many serious topics. I’m sure it’ll still occur in Lemmy to some extent but hopefully the lack of karma will help keep it down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm going to upvote you just so you can live with being what you despise.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 1 points 2 years ago

I downvoted to counteract you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If there's no karma, then what are the two numbers that "Thunder" displays next to my account age?

[–] cod 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’ve got the same with Memmy. I think these apps just add your upvotes and downvotes together to give you a score. Reddit, on the other hand, had a complex karma system, where the more upvotes/downvotes your post would get, the less those would be worth, so you couldn’t just get a massive karma score from just a couple popular posts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I had a post hit the top of r/all with 41k upvotes but it never got added to my post karma. I never cared enough to try to find out, but I always kind of wondered. It was a great post. 😂

[–] cod 2 points 2 years ago

You should post it over on Lemmy if you haven’t! We could always use more content here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, and didn't early upvotes count more than later ones?

[–] cod 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah I think so

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is thunder a Lemmy browser?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, but it's only available via GitHub which means you gotta update it manually... No PlayStore or F-Droid atm afaik

[–] Anti_Face_Weapon 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If Android wasn't whack it would be a very simple script to update it automatically from the GitHub, compiled from source.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is a score kept in the backend, it just has no frontend in default lemmy and only exists if instance devs want to do something custom with it. Some apps are probably using it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yep, The Memmy IOS app has a lot of details on the profile page

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[–] Evrala 5 points 2 years ago

It also made participating in smaller subreddits a little less satisfying, even though I liked the conversations in those more.

There was just something about a random comment in a giant subreddit suddenly getting me sooo many points, more than I had made in months!

Logically I knew karma didn't really matter, but big numbers gud!

[–] Anti_Face_Weapon 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree with your text I'm going to give you some good boy points

[–] FediFuckerFantastico 1 points 2 years ago

Good boy points for all of you!

[–] givesomefucks 3 points 2 years ago

It's good to see people complaining about good boy points still get good boyed here.

Somethings never change

[–] Widowmaker_Best_Girl 2 points 2 years ago

But how am I supposed to buy tendies now without my gbp?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Aussiemandeus 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doot doot,

Insert image of pingu here. I cant do it on comnect for lemmy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Sent from Connect for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like I'm 13 again trying to figure out reddit, lol.

Was able to do it once, can do it again...

[–] FediFuckerFantastico 1 points 2 years ago

We'll all get there together. It looks like the fediverse has some amazing potential, I'm excited to give this place all my views and interactions to build it into something cool.

[–] Anomalous_Llama 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don’t know what’s going on here and at this point I’m to afraid to ask

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just remember, if you have a hot take , they don't just ban you, they ban your entire server

[–] FediFuckerFantastico 1 points 2 years ago

Whaaaa that's crazy I don't understand. On the subject of things I don't understand, is there a grand tally of our upvotes somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

All your upvotes belong to us.

[–] Earthwormjim91 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Oh it’s coming lol. They already track vote counts on the back end. Several third party apps even show total “point” for posts and comments.

Example from my profile on Memmy:

And Thunder

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Interesting all the ones I use don't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We can't stop it I guess... That's the power of open source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You want to stop, having a sorting algorithm ?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Who says I can't have Karma!? Maybe I'll get good luck by getting a lot of updoots here on Lemmy, just like how it worked on Reddit! Right?

[–] martyc3 8 points 2 years ago

Hello World 👋

[–] wtf_man 5 points 2 years ago

hey guys i am here too

[–] MrMac 4 points 2 years ago

For now

Muhahahhahaahha

[–] ekZepp 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where are my customizable avatar!?!? WHEEEEREEEEE?!!!???? 😫

[–] ragekage 2 points 2 years ago

Tbh that was one my least favorite additions to Reddit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

But when I see people upvoting my shitposts, it still gives me the happy monkey hormones. Isn't that what it's all about?

[–] Spoken_Weakley 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is this where we establish ourselved as "landed gentry"?

[–] PillowTalk420 2 points 2 years ago

Stake out your own homestead in this new land as pioneers. Manifest destiny.

[–] TheTheMeet 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As my application for lemmy.ml / lemmy.one are still pending , and i got rejected at beehaw.org, im making id at lemmy.world

Please accept us the reddit refugees

[–] PillowTalk420 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe it's just the apps I've use for it, but I still see points and upvote/downvote systems here. Am I missing something about all these "no karma" posts? Is it simply the lack of account points? Help me understand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

If there is no karma here, then how do I have a good afterlife in lemmy? /s

[–] Foam3477 0 points 2 years ago

I personally don't care about reddit karma but maybe it can be a motivation tool for content creation? maybe?