• laxe@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m actually curious the reason why Lemmy does not have a karma equivalent.

    I don’t miss it since I rarely checked my reddit karma but it does have pros and cons.

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      1 year ago

      Karma might work on a per instance basis, but if implemented on a federation wide scale you’d have to trust every instance. It would be far too easy to artificially increase your karma with your own rogue instance just by editing the database.

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s mainly to discourage reposting for the sake of reposting. On top of that, lemmy doesn’t go out of it’s way to improve user retention, which I believe karma and the incessant notifications about your comments being upvoted, were about.

      Edit: added some stuff