Lemmy Karma Calculator – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
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Download Lemmy Karma Calculator for Firefox. Displays a user's Lemmy score (aka. karma) in their profile (eg. https://lemmy.ml/u/Yoru). Requires you to be logged in.

cross-posted from: https://lemme.discus.sh/post/851

I recently found this Firefox extension that looks safe (I checked some network activity but DOUBLE CHECK) and brings back Karma on Lemmy!

INB4: if you don’t like karma on lemmy, you are in good company. There is no need to hate the ones that do like them.

Of course being unofficial it’s just a cosmetic feature, so it hopefully can be a funny thing without going to be toxic like on Reddit.

How much karma do u have?

  • RookiEnglish
    39·
    9 months ago

    So to bring the sole reason, that users swapped from reddit to lemmy, back?

    What a genious.

      • RookiEnglish
        30·
        9 months ago

        Oh sorry if i am offensive with it. It was just my opinion. Everyone should of course do what they want on lemmy. And if anyone wants to add Karma back, they should. But what they should keep on reddit, is the attitude oh you have low karma = you bad or you are just not worth my time.

        • karibokaEnglish
          40·
          9 months ago

          Your opinion is okay and I agree with it. I just pointed you didn’t need to call the OP a “genius”.

    • The Cooking SenpaiOPEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      I guess you missed the whole

      if you don’t like karma on lemmy, you are in good company. There is no need to hate the ones that do like them.

      I could argue people (like me) swapped from reddit also because we were tired of the “if you disagree with me you are a stupid” attitude but I guess is universal

      Cheers, just skip the post

      • RookiEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        Its not that i disagree but i see the risk that the karma will come back as hey you have low karma, you cant do sh*t. Or the whole thing with “Karma farming”. People posting more what everyone wants to hear and not whats right or interesting for some.

        • Carighan MaconarEnglish
          41·
          9 months ago9 months ago

          Hrm, I think people already do that though.

          Just that now instead of clicking on someone and looking at their single Karma value, they click on someone and then scroll down briefly, looking at the point values of the newest comments and posts. It happens anyways because to a user it is desirable to get a non-complicated “is what this person writes in general meh, or is this their one-off post”-answer if they can get one, even if it has of course at best marginal value as an actual indicator (as the karma value does. Or does not, more like.).

          As always, the issue is not people being fundamentally bad, or fundamentally good, but being fundamentally people. 😅

        • The Cooking SenpaiOPEnglish
          20·
          9 months ago

          Thats a good critic indeed. I agree on that, as I stated below being a non farmer and quite outside the world of karma farmers I only saw it as a naive cosmetic thing

    • SpziEnglish
      31·
      9 months ago

      Reddit was using karma for a long time and people stayed. The exodus happened when reddit announced charging for using their API, and everything that came along. Karma was no significant part of that story.

    • Carighan MaconarEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      I might be misunderstanding your sentence, but people swapped to Lemmy from Reddit because Reddit removed karma values? (because say “back”) I don’t think they ever removed it.

      • RookiEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        No, i meant it as that. Because of downsides of karma on reddit ( with restricting things to only over x ammount of karma ) many swapped from reddit. Because lemmy doesnt have it ( or rather shouldnt have it as pre 0.19 it was just an oversight ) i said “back” because i was referencing it to lemmy. I am not a native english speaker.