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.
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.
i’d been on reddit for over a decade and i never knew that.
Because it’s false.
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.
Really?
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