On Reddit, my karma was always weighted more on the question side than on the comment side. I felt bad for not being a valuable contributor to people’s lives rather than being selfish and always asking things for myself. Lemmy has gotten rid of that point system so now I feel like I can feel free to ask as many questions as I need without having to balance my karma. Also, I have noticed that I participate so much more on this platform than I ever did on Reddit.
It’s the main reason why Reddit was a giant circle jerk. I like here that you can upvote and downvote things but it’s not connected to your account at all. Just connected to the comment or post, as it should be.
Usual reminder: It’s still connected to your account, but it’s not displayed. That’s a pure frontend decision, and something like kbin (more than a frontend, but still) does display it. The data is in the database, and an instance admin can query it. Haven’t looked into it, so I don’t know if the information is easily available for cross-instance admins.
As illustration of this fact, over here on kbin.social I can check this comment’s “activity” and see that the four upvotes it’s received so far are from @VieuxQueb, @kakes, @density and @Treevan. The timestamps are visible too.
This isn’t some sort of sneaky doxxing, its presented just two mouse clicks away in the standard kbin interface to anyone with an account. I wouldn’t be surprised if fancier tracking systems get implemented, maybe right in the instance or maybe with some kind of RES-style user script, to let you see patterns in who is upvoting or downvoting whom more easily.
This isn’t to say that people shouldn’t upvote and downvote freely, just keep in mind that it doesn’t work like Reddit did. This is public information here.
Also whether you automatically upvote yourself (which is visible with the others) depends on server/instance. kbin does not self upvote automatically right now.
Please tell me this only applies to kbin users and/ot there’s a way to disable it
This is a serious privacy risk
Voyager app displays total scores for Lemmy as well.
I didn’t notice this until you mentioned it. I really like that. Hopefully it stays that way.
I rarely up/down voted stuff on Reddit, because I didn’t want to feed the algorithm and have them do whatever it is they were going to do with that data tied to me.
Well said.