YSK: Lemmy DOES have a karma system

Muddybulldog@mylemmy.win to You Should Know@lemmy.world – 747 points –

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.

https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/PersonAggregates.html

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But you have to consider the difference to Reddit's karma system. If you have a high-karma account on Reddit, your comment or post trends much higher. That's not the case with Lemmy, as far as I know.

Apparently, I was mistaken. Sorry.

I'm pretty sure that's not true. I had 320k+ Karma on reddit when the admins banned me for participating in the protests and I regularly posted things that got very few upvotes.

Yeah that’s definitely not the case. Karma is used to determine how frequently a user can post or comment, so that bot created accounts are limited from instantly flooding a subreddit or comment thread. It isn’t visibility or automatic upvotes.

That isn’t a thing, I dislike Reddit as well but we shouldn’t start making false statements about them.

Interesting. I never would've considered that since I only sort by New. Can neither confirm nor deny because I can't read Rust.

I thought the best/top/hot were governed by upvotes/downvotes on that specific post. Not the user's Karma.

Correct. There is no karma factor. There is a time factor that causes a post's/comment's rank to decay. The devs have documented their algorithm.

Is this something thats actually in the reddit ranking system. I.e reddit will activly push posts/comments from high karma accounts higher? Or just that high karma accounts tend to get more upvotes, etc ?

No, it’s not a real thing, I’m not sure why the commenter said that.

Here I see a new comment right above the top comment which is great because everyone has their comment up top at first. This might be a jerboa thing tho