I am curious to hear opinions on the concept of user karma in general.
Do people miss it?
Are we better off without it?
From a technicial perspective, I don’t see why it couldn’t be implemented. I understand Lemmy doesn’t track this explicitly. However, using a users post and comment history you could come to a number pretty easily, right? I was considering making a toy app that would take a user and instance and spit out a karma score for post and comments, what would stop others from doing the same?
Will it be inevitably pulled into existence by Lemmy users as we mature the platform?
I like karma on individual posts and comments, but the practice of totaling it up for each user. More karma == better quality. It just means you use the platform a lot.
That being said, does the amount of karma for a comment look the same regardless of what instance you’re looking at it from? Like if comment from my lemmy.one profile on a post on a lemm.ee instance, will my comment’s karma be the same for accounts across those instances?