Has anybody else experienced this? Ever since Lemmy was upgraded to 0.19, all of my sweet internet points are gone. I know you’re not supposed to care about that, nevertheless am I the only one?!
I’m not sure the original designers of LEMMY believe you are supposed to be able to see your karma “score”. It’s not available in the web interface, and I think that’s on purpose. IDK for sure, but Karma may be detrimental to the quality of debate. Also making it into a popularity contest may also be detrimental to your enjoyment of being here. Personally I find the lack of a karma score relieving. Just relax and have a good time.
Yeah, it’s really good. Karma is incentive to do stupid stuff like karma farming bots that just spam old top posts over and over etc…
Karma was also a really handy tool for mods to keep away bots and trolls.
Is it really, though? Even if karma wasn’t ridiculously easy to get in the first place, Reddit has karma sharing communities for the sole purpose of users and bots upvoting each other to get around karma restrictions.
When mod tools are available, I believe that problem will be solved as well.
I agree completely that this can have negative impact on discussions, stimulate karma farming etc. So I’m all for it to hide it. Would be nice though to completely skip it from the UI (of in this case Boost).
Lemmy has karma? Nah, keep up votes and down votes but don’t make it some accumulation number. That’s what drives enshitification. Turning that data into something accumulative right on the user’s profile causes click click phone dopamine seekers to then fuel that to behavior in social settings with apps because it gets th internet point dopamine.
I have fond memories of “competing” for high post counts back on forums, which just came down to talking a lot and easy wins like “what are you listening to” threads.
Anyway yeah, the thing you don’t want already exists here. It’s not the end of the world if some people want to chase a number.
It’s not tracked anymore as of 0.19 (“don’t serialize karma”). Lemmy dev dessalines talks about how it’s being removed (and should’ve been removed sooner) here.
Lemmy points were never supposed to be cumulative, you’re just using some app that did it themselves until whatever they used to gather the data changed.
They’re moving to remove karma as it’s toxic and unimportant. Most just show your post/comment count now.
But how will we know who is better than who…? I don’t want to have to go back to judging people by their physical characteristics again.