RIght now lemmy doesn’t calculate or display a user’s “karma”. And many think this a good thing (me included).

Interestingly, kbin does calculate karma, even for us lemmy users (you can all probably just search on kbin.social and find your karma now, +/- federation inconsistencies).

Whenever karma comes up, this fact often comes up, along with the identification of up/down voters, such that many lemmy users will probably know that they actually do have karma and can go look it up if they want to. Some lemmy apps/frontends are also reporting karma AFAIU.

So I think the question now presents itself of whether this is an issue we want users to have some control over, within the bounds of what can done over federation/AP of course.

I can imagine a system where karma is an opt-in setting of one’s profile, and a protocol is established that any platform/client that understands up/down votes ought to respect this setting and that non-compliance risks defederation.

Though lemmy/kbin obviously lean more “public internet resource” than microblogging platforms like mastodon, I think it makes sense to value user health and safety here, and this seems like a not unreasonable option to establish a norm around.

Thoughts?

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    So you’re a bot and I don’t know why you’re posting like that here … but … what you’re saying doesn’t make much sense.

    • community subscriber numbers across the fediverse are available already in the sidebar
    • the karma of a post, otherwise known as its score, equal to the upvotes minus the downvotes, is used to help the post rise to the top when sorting either by Top, Hot or Active.
      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        And just to prove I’m not a bot, 2 + 2 = 4 😂

        I LoL-ed … thanks for that!

        Sorry if I was harsh in my response … I read yours as kinda a troll or something … it was probably late for me too!

        Subscriber counts in search makes sense to me. The communities table, the subscribed communities list and the search for communities could all do with some love for sure!

        account karma is silly & karma of content itself is much more important.

        Yes!