Has anybody else experienced this? Ever since Lemmy was upgraded to 0.19, all of my sweet internet points are gone. I know you’re not supposed to care about that, nevertheless am I the only one?!
Lemmy has karma? Nah, keep up votes and down votes but don’t make it some accumulation number. That’s what drives enshitification. Turning that data into something accumulative right on the user’s profile causes click click phone dopamine seekers to then fuel that to behavior in social settings with apps because it gets th internet point dopamine.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not sure the original designers of LEMMY believe you are supposed to be able to see your karma “score”. It’s not available in the web interface, and I think that’s on purpose. IDK for sure, but Karma may be detrimental to the quality of debate. Also making it into a popularity contest may also be detrimental to your enjoyment of being here. Personally I find the lack of a karma score relieving. Just relax and have a good time.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, it’s really good. Karma is incentive to do stupid stuff like karma farming bots that just spam old top posts over and over etc…
Zagorath@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Karma was also a really handy tool for mods to keep away bots and trolls.
e_mc2@feddit.nl 11 months ago
I agree completely that this can have negative impact on discussions, stimulate karma farming etc. So I’m all for it to hide it. Would be nice though to completely skip it from the UI (of in this case Boost).
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’m sure it’ll get removed. Voyager used to have it and I was shocked it disappeared a couple months ago in preparation for 0.19. Now it just shows post and comment counts.