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?
if you want to view exposed ‘karma’, you’ll nee to pick a different product than lemmy. id suggest kbin/mbin.
the lemmy devs are hard set against it.
Noted. It was just a funny innocent thing tbh but I see, is a spicy topic in the lemmy community
they really want to be this alternative/off-ramp to reddit but dont really want to provide the features that draw users to reddit. i get it, some of those features are abused to some extent.
i feel this feature should be instance-specific. the developers shouldnt make that call. the instance admin should be able to enable what the _community_wants. if lemmy.world hates karma, groovy, but let lemmy.ca show it if they want.
totally agree on that. If we want to keep being a healthy alternative to reddit, freedom is the minimum i expect