There’s some misinformation floating around regarding Lemmy not having a karma system. While many have discovered otherwise, this is for those who may not have.
While it’s not exposed in the Lemmy default user interface, Lemmy does have a fully functional karma system and it is visible in third party clients such as WefWef and Memmy.
Do with that what you will.
Does it have any effect - e.g. on the visibility of posts? I don’t care about karma, but I do wish the web UI would hide comments with large numbers of downvotes.
I don’t. I have a lot of really unpopular opinions and it’s important to me that everyone knows about them.
If you’ve got a few minutes to chat I can give you the gist.
Upvotes are useful for determining what people like and dislike so you can sort posts and comments.
Karma is just a bad way to have someone crucified for expressing an unpopular opinion… anyone remember COVID?
Whatever your opinion (and mine was unpopular - still is, as many Thai’s STILL wear masks in the street - even if they’re walking down the middle of an empty street FFS) a recent study has proven me right - the lockdown did sweet FA (maybe a 1% reduction in deaths from COVID, but an increase from 1.5% to 40% in mental disorders reported in 18-45 year old people and MASSIVE economic and educational damage.
Yeah that was kind of my point. What floofloof is suggesting is porting over the worst feature of reddit. The one that literally creates a hivemind. Not interested in that at all.