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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 71 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It used to. Kind of. The APi endpoint for accessing someone's lifetime upvotes minus downvotes was never used in the webUI, and was removed completely a while back.

The devs don't want accounts to have "scores".

If you're just referring to votes in general, that's not what "karma" refers to. Karma on reddit is how much upvotes your account has gotten vs downvotes. How "good" you are.

The idea is that with that number visible, you get people "karma whoring". Posting just for the sake of it, often with low effort, either to inflate or tank their scores as high/low as possible.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where can you see it in the Lemmy UI nowadays?

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They're wrong. They think karma is the individual post or comment votes. Lemmy doesn't have karma.

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

good choice imo.

[–] Isa@feddit.org 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But what are the reasons?! 🤯

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

The rest of us just code daemons

[–] Isa@feddit.org 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah good 😅, I feared for a moment, that it might have some more serious reasons.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Oh you meant the human sacrifices? They're unrelated.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Pentagram? That’s K5, the complete graph with 5 vertices. I imagine it’s there to represent the graph of federated instances.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 5 months ago

TILhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_graph

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Also, it points upwards, the satanic version is upside down (like the satanic cross).

The pentagram has far longer been a holy or symbol of protection for people who are into that kind of thing. Not sure if that matters though because it also applies to the swastika.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

It's perfect and as it should be.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

People need to chill about pentagrams. I've explored enough paganism to know they're good symbols with pleasant intent. Christians really fucked those up for everyone like they did everything else. It's a shame that their satanization of old religious and spiritual imagery has affected the perception of even non-Christian folk.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 8 points 5 months ago
[–] scott@authorship.studio 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's only evil if it is upside down. ;-)

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Upside down? Isn't it more like... "72 degrees"?

[–] scott@authorship.studio 2 points 5 months ago

@xia From our angle it might be about 72 degrees, but for the guy standing on it, it might feel hotter. :-D

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, there's still plenty of greedy and asshole instance owners who get a pass from their communities because of their cult of personality.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)