Karma in lemmy?

[aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Hi guys just wanted to know if Lemmy has any karma count for people in their profile like Reddit has? If so is it public and How can I access it?
Edit: Thanks guys I'm so relieved that this kind of stuff is not prevalent here. I love the Fediverse ️

[extremedullard@lemmy.sdf.org]

Nope. Post and comment scores are just that - scores. They have zero impact on your account or you standing on your instance. Whether you care about them or not is entirely up to you.

[rmdebarc_5@sh.itjust.works]

AFAIK it used to exist but was removed to avoid recreating stuff like karma farming and minimum karma limits. But it would be pretty easy to make a bash script that manually calculates the karma score

[bigboismith@lemmy.world]

I know some clients show that, but the culture here is generally quite against the concept. Tends to lead to people being scared of going against the majority and creates a hive mind mentality to keep karma high.

[thefogan@programming.dev]

In short... no, Lemmy developers believe the karma mechanics on reddit incentivize bad behavior. (IE making bots or even just yourself re-creating past succesful posts) or just posting the obvious ideas that one assumes everyone is going to upvote etc...

[aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Hive mind mentality sums up Reddit culture pretty accurately. so happy to be here

[morrowind@lemmy.ml]

Unfortunately you're not out of the weeds yet. Lemmy has plenty of hive mind mentality

[natenate60@lemmy.world]

Cannot agree more. I say things all the time here that people hate and downvote me for but the numbers are even more useless here than on Reddit so it's difficult to care.

[aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Atleast it's not rewarding (hypothetically) like Reddit

[rikudou@lemmings.world]

I mean, it's the same, except you don't get a total number across all your posts.

The hive mind is here as well.

[troed@fedia.io]

This is what my Mbin instance profile view shows me:

Reputation points: 4116
Moderated: 0

I'm under the impression the reputation points are either the combined number of upvotes or that minus downvotes, but I don't know. Also, this is an Mbin instance but it's fully federated with Lemmy instances so usually no one separates "Lemmy" and "Mbin" ...

[freebird@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Don't get me started on Karma farming bots. A Karma system does more harm than good.

[ekzepp@lemmy.world]

[gregorgizeh@lemmy.zip]

If it is the same as for me it should be the sum of your posts and comments. What and how popular wouldn't matter, just each submission equals one point.

[pamasich@kbin.earth]

Lemmy doesn't, but other platforms like Mbin might show your total karma among posts federated with that instance.

The instance I'm on tells me your karma is 462.

[valmond@lemmy.world]

How much is mine ?

[pamasich@kbin.earth]

If it is the same as for me it should be the sum of your posts and comments.

Not sure what you mean with "if it is the same as for me", considering you're on Lemmy which doesn't have a feature like this.

But it being the sum of posts and comments is verifiably false. My instance knows of 6 posts and 809 comments of yours. Your home instance reports 17 posts and 2.27k comments. Either way, your karma is 8686, which isn't the sum of either of those.

[gregorgizeh@lemmy.zip]

I have a sum total displayed in my profile which works as I described, and assumed that is what everyone gets to see.

[aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah I get it. I guess that's just what people are. We crave being approved by other

[aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I guess that's OK. Atleast it's not everywhere like Reddit