I think I will do nothing with that information.

Upvotes are useful for determining what people like and dislike so you can sort posts and comments

Account karma is for narcissists to masturbate about how loved they are

Thanks, I hate it. Promotes gamesmanship and super douches like Gallowboob.

Honestly should be removed

Welcome to Lemmy where everything is made up and the Karma doesn’t matter.

Honestly is it even worth anything? Even on reddit I didn't really pay attention to how much karma a user had, maybe when I wanted to check if it was a bot or something.

Well, I completely ignored karma on Reddit for around a decade, until a friend one day pointed my huge karma out to me in a very enthusiastic way. I believe I will also ignore it here.

Mine (on both 3rd party apps) are very inaccurate lol. I have a post with over 2k and it says my karma is 300

Are you telling me I wasted my time manually tallying up my karma with calculator to track my karma-whoring activity?

One thing I love about the fediverse is I dont have to give a fuck about karma

I used to create a new account on reddit every few years to "reset" my Internet presence.

Didn't give a shit about karma, still don't.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I think the karma system has value and I'd like to see us keep it. I did time as a moderator on a fairly busy subreddit, and requiring accounts to be >30 days old and have >100 or so karma saved us a lot of work. E.g., it made ban evasion a little harder to do, and reduced brigading.

It also helped to keep folks fairly civil and promoted considering perspective when posting, which I think is valuable.

With that said, I'd LOVE to allow communities to disable down votes... it's a missing feature in reddit, and if you are trying to promote discussion of a divisive topic, or to actively suppress an echo chamber, I think down votes are counter productive.

Karma is about which faction will turn hostile to you.

Let's not make Lemmy Reddit, or at least can we label this feature Anti-Karma?

With Reddit, though, some subreddits required a minimum amount of karma to post, whereas if you have access to an instance you can post freely.

So it’s more a user rating of “this was good/how have you survived until this point” than a gatekeeping device: you, as a poster, can freely ignore your points and the points of others if you don’t care.

In Lemmy, karma is not important.

Alignment, however, is paramount.

Mine seems to be chaotic ADHD asshole. Wait, is this even a proper alignment?!

I think I am the only one that finds karma useful. Albeit my experience is based on Reddit, but I found it handy to check out who are the serial reposters that have huge submission karma and very low comment karma. My RES filter was getting..... large.

Lemmy? I dunno. I'm still pretty new here.

Does that karma allow me to buy NFTs, then resell them for double the price I paid, then create bots to karma farming, be called a karma whore by jealous people, grow my evil power, become the CEO of Lemmy, put ads, charge for the API so my official app is the only one allowed to work and talk to shareholders? If it doesn't allow me to do that, then there's no karma 😝

My points have reset a couple times over the last couple weeks, so they don't mean much.

Pretty sure this is just the apps adding up all the upvotes/downvotes you receive and not an actual Lemmy feature.

Oh no. Anyway, karma wasn't the worst thing about reddit so it should be fine, I hope...

My "karma" got reset a few days ago. Lol.

Honestly makes no diff. But it's a little nice to see. Didn't really change my behavior. I'm just happy to be here and I am engaging more than I ever did on Reddit.

Does it have any effect - e.g. on the visibility of posts? I don't care about karma, but I do wish the web UI would hide comments with large numbers of downvotes.

https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/PersonAggregates.html

Yup, you can see it's in the API.