Some apps aggregate that info but Lemmy isn’t about karma or upvotes overall and it’s better for it. I just checked mine and I have 35k points, holy hell. I’m happy that’s not really displayed publicly because it doesn’t mean anything
Damn, redditors really are trying to bring every single dumbass aspect of Reddit over to Lemmy too (targeted at the people who made this decision for the app, not you btw)
Yeah, and its right in your face, aswell. Other apps like thunder atleast need you to open a submenu to see it, tho I’d rather it was removed entirely.
When I look at the JSON response for your profile page from lemmy.world in a desktop browser, I see:
post_count: 32
post_score: 2674
comment_count: 1072
comment_score: 4459
But the standard Lemmy UI doesn’t display those score totals. When I view your profile from Connect, I do see 7133 points. That’s not 8316 like you see because federation is hard.
Which leads to reposting, karma whoring, karma requirements and “ThAnK yOu FoR aLl ThE uPvOtEs” comments.
Personally I think the aim should be to have fun (inclusive) or enhance your or someone else’s knowledge and not to brag about how much internet points you have :')
On the other hand, I sometimes like to get lost in account statistics so I’m also not completely against them as long as one sees them as values only and not as some sort of (dick) comparison.
You did until recently. The devs removed it though to discourage point farming accounts. Your new app might just be calculating the points manually by tallying all of your posts
To my knowledge, Lemmy does not have a built in feature to keep track of total points (i.e. karma), but some third party apps like Connect will aggregate a user’s comment/post scores into a pseudo-karma score.
This is incorrect, Lemmy does have it. Though the devs are moving away from this feature supposedly and it will stop being reported. The official UI doesn’t show it. They will show a count of comments/posts instead.
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