Just doing my part to add to the shitpost pile. If you like this sorta stuff, I got more comics on my website: www.victorgnarly.com
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The secret is that Lemmy is tracking karma, it just doesn’t show it. There are fields in the database that hold the total comment score and total post score.
The difficult part is that only a user’s original home server tracks karma effectively.
While there was still a websocket API (which could bypass browser limitations) I wrote a quick script that collected the karma for an entire page of comments from each user’s home server. It worked quite well, but I can understand why the devs left it out.
Now that the websocket API is dead, I don’t think there’s a good way to do this from the browser anymore. I could set up a small API server that would send the necessary requests for me and implement some kind of caching, but that sounds like too much effort for something only I would use anyway.
Yeah I recognize it’s a decision from the admins here, but it’s one I approve of heavily for reasons said when I posted this to the fediverse channel. The motivation behind posting is less tainted this way.
Nah I don’t think there is an option to show it in Lemmy. It just seems it’s there in the database either in anticipation of adding the feature, or because because of changed plans.
Karma is viewable with WefWef.
It doesn’t seem to be accurate. It shows 20 comment karma and 1 post karma for me in wefwef, but even scrolling back thorough the comments shows way more. The database shows hundreds of each for me.
I don’t know how wefwef calculates karma but it must be guessing.
I noticed when I had made 4 comments, it correctly displayed the total of all my scores, which I think was like 12 at the time, but now that I’ve made a few more, that add up to like 20 something it says my total is 8.
Maybe it’s just really shit at math?
Whoa, your art is dope. Thanks for linking. Im a fan now.
Thanks for checking it out! You can subscribe here or to any of those socials if preferred.
do you have an rss feed that i can follow?
I’m hoping this sort of feature comes soon but for now I do not.
ok thanks for replying!
also your art is fantastic
I’m glad Lemmy have no karma system. Reddit’s karma system is just awful!
Gorgeous art OP
A rainbow pentagram at that! The gay cabal has really slipped up and revealed themselves this time! Now all we need to do is arrest this leader of the fediverse and…
Whats that? They have no leader?
Drats! Foiled again.
You joke, but those Facebook boomers will 100% say this shit
Wefwef shows karma
It does, but it’s wrong. How does it work?
it mostly doesn’t
(the lemmy backend is in fact tracking karma but federated upvotes and general instability are fucking shit up a lot)
That’s a high quality shitpost right there, the shitpost pit hungers for more
I thought it was the usual speech bubble alteration post until the last panel
I’ve been assuming it’s meant to portray the network of federated servers.
That is in fact, the right answer.
Moreover, it’s meant to indirectly be a visual of this idea, the “network effect”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe’s_law The more connections, the more diversity.
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