• noisetricks@sopuli.xyz
      16·
      1 year ago

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

      • Zyratoxx@lemm.ee
        5·
        1 year ago

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

        • Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

      • EeeDawg101@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Evrala@lemmy.world
        1·
        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!

  • macmacfire@lemmy.ml
    5·
    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?

  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    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