Disagree, cake days are only a fun “easter egg”, and karma doesn’t really exist on Lemmy as far as I can tell.
Not sure if I should downvote this popular opinion in the unpopular opinion sub or upvote it, for more people to see this wholesome take.
I had to look at the community rules to see what to do as well:
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it’s something that’s widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
What is the protocol for when I don’t have enough data to assess how popular an opinion is and I want to spread and support it to make it more popular of an opinion?
welp, i decided not to do anything 😅
I would like some geographic filtering, or at least sorting, do I can see local stuff before all the USA election posts.
The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.
The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.
Cake Days are shown in the default web interface. Like for this user who posted further down in this thread:
The only thing I miss here are active niche communities. Other than that, it’s so much better than Spez’s data vacuuming service.
I didn’t think karma existed on Lemmy? Or maybe it was removed in ann update?
It exists, your total just isn’t visible to anyone but admins.
Well, in that your upvote total and ratio can be calculated, at least. Does it actually do anything, or can it do anything, like it did on reddit? Subs having minimum karma thresholds, that sort of thing? If not, it’s truly meaningless and can be safely ignored by everyone.
That’s what I do.
Users’ aggregate post and comment score has been entirely removed from the Lemmy API (as of version 0.19.0 if I remember correctly). It is not easily accessible to anyone, including admins. You could write a script to sum a user’s aggregate score.
Oh I guess I missed that update. Thanks for the correction.
This pleases me greatly. This is the ethos.
its completely public via non-lemmy systems https://moist.catsweat.com/u/@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
Isn’t it worthless though? I mean I could award myself karma on my servers communities or just hack it up.
no. Its great for catching trolls.
it literally hurts no one for existing
Interesting. Your instance is from another platform, right? Is it Piefed or mbin?
Is this just basically karma or what does it mean?
yep, im coming from an mbin instance. its basically karma… upvotes - downvotes.
it really helps identifying spammers/trolls quickly.
Thanks. I love that we’ve got several active alternatives we can communicate with on the threadiverse now. I like Lemmy but I hope they continue to proliferate.
Does it persist through comment/post removal/deletion?
Tldr I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion.
Cake day?
I have no idea what day I first started using lemmy, or when I made an account. I’m okay not knowing.
As for “karma”, do any instances track total karma, or just per-comment? Honestly I don’t give a shit if my comments do well or not, I don’t live for other people’s amusement.
As for other people, I can’t speak for them, but I haven’t seen anyone crying for lemmy to be more like reddit.
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Mostly I like the ways it’s not like reddit, but I miss ‘disable inbox replies’
Drop controversial comment
“Disable comment replies”
Sometimes you just have something to say but have high confidence that continuing the conversation beyond that isn’t going to be productive. I like having the option to not be tempted.
Man, I’d love thrm to add that to lemmy, sometimes I live up to my username and would like to ignore the comments.
how do we reward original content?
Toothpaste.
So far it seems like people develop around the ideas laid down by social media giants. Rather than replicating, it would be good to see incorporation of healthier options (e.g. time monitoring displayed in app, stopping endless scrolling and keeping to page by page scrolling, avoiding prioritising low effort content (by showing older posts in people’s feeds as well and displaying more that prompts comments rather than just upvotes, etc). Don’t know how they would design to minimise the hivemind…there’s still plenty of that.
Let’s get rid of cake day but there is already no karma on Lemmy meaning no general upvote count. It will be much harder to find anything if we get rid of a voting system and the one we have is probably the most transparent and easy-to-understand one 2 opposite force and to possibility to choose neighter.
IMO the issue is not copying cherry picked good features from Reddit, but to indiscriminately copy features because “since Reddit has it, Lemmy got to have it too”, without paying attention if they actually benefit the Threadiverse.
Bots are one thing like that. Communities could have features built in that was not possible on Reddit since admins are part of the community now.
Good catch on bots - they’re a great example of that, since the underlying idea (less busy work) is 100% worth copying but not the implementation.
In fact IMO Lemmy bots are already a bit too similar to Reddit bots in a bunch of undesirable ways. For example they’re created and kept as “pseudo-users”, instead of tools associated with a (human) user in their profile.
Is there a place where you can see your useless internet points on lemmy. They are only needed to show the general opinion of the thread. It a superior system to reddits bot fueled lies.
I call my real life birthday “cake day.” Because I hate my birthday. But I do like cake.
Cake day is cute
Yes. I mean, just because your stupid neighbour celebrates their birthday, it doesn’t mean you would stop celebrating your birthday just to be different.
Counterpoint: birthdays (and cake days, and many anniversaries) are a pointless celebration.
Payton Oswalt had a pretty good plan on that: https://youtu.be/sbJs-Ul1QFo
How are they pointless if they bring people joy? I know there are exceptions but I’m pretty sure people generally really like birthdays…
I will need an explanation of this one. Are you saying that people don’t like birthdays?
Just that once you hit a certain age….its no longer fun to be reminded
NO HAPPINESS ALLOWED! GET BACK TO THE COAL MINES!
I think it would be cool if you couldn’t see the upvote/downvote score until you voted
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I just disable vote counts from being displayed. I don’t care how popular or unpopular some comment is.
