Help me understand points on Lemmy. How are they different than karma? And how are they impacted by posts that get spread to other federated services like Mastodon? Thank you!

  • Izzy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Points on Lemmy are only for ranking posts and comments. The purpose here is for good posts and comments to stand out from bad posts and comments. Unlike Karma on reddit you do not accumulate an overall point counter on your profile. Which should potentially help reduce people posting and commenting low effort things for the sole purpose of making a number go up.

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      1 year ago

      Good summary! There are however apps that sum up the points of your comments and posts and show them on your profile. This is only accurate for your own profile , as posts of others on other instances are not guaranteed to federate and taken into account.

      • No_Eponym@lemmy.caOP
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        1 year ago

        So the account points count picture I posted is 1) due to Jerboa and 2) only on that app?

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          1 year ago
          1. Not just Jebora, it seems to happen on Wefwef and I think Connect too.

          If you open Lemmy on your standard browser app and navigate to your profile, you won’t see a points total, just a Posts made and Comments made total.

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        1 year ago

        Congratulations, kbin tells me you have a reputation score of 309!
        (Noting, as you did, that kbin will only know about a subset of your activity…)

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        1 year ago

        At low numbers, 100s to 1000s, when combined with account age it’s an indicator of interaction and quality of contribution. Higher than that it’s meaningless.

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    I don’t know if this is the same across all Lemmy instances, but I believe that on Kbin, at least, points are a 1:1 count of your upvotes/downvotes/boosts, with boosts counting as 2 upvotes. So if you make a post that gets 10 upvotes, 5 boosts, and 3 downvotes, you have 17 points on your profile.