this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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[–] Dayst0rm 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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

Is thunder a Lemmy browser?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] can 1 points 1 year ago

This is why I don't use thunder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 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] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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] 3 points 1 year 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!

[–] dream_weasel 1 points 1 year ago

How will I measure my dick against randos without my karma bro?!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doot doot,

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

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

Sent from Connect for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

All your upvotes belong to us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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

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

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

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

[–] slackassassin 1 points 1 year ago

No. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around and THAT'S what it's all about!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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] 2 points 1 year ago

Interesting all the ones I use don't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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