Cake day is cute
Yes. I mean, just because your stupid neighbour celebrates their birthday, it doesn’t mean you would stop celebrating your birthday just to be different.
Counterpoint: birthdays (and cake days, and many anniversaries) are a pointless celebration.
Payton Oswalt had a pretty good plan on that: https://youtu.be/sbJs-Ul1QFo
How are they pointless if they bring people joy? I know there are exceptions but I’m pretty sure people generally really like birthdays…
The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.
IMO the issue is not copying cherry picked good features from Reddit, but to indiscriminately copy features because “since Reddit has it, Lemmy got to have it too”, without paying attention if they actually benefit the Threadiverse.
Bots are one thing like that. Communities could have features built in that was not possible on Reddit since admins are part of the community now.
Good catch on bots - they’re a great example of that, since the underlying idea (less busy work) is 100% worth copying but not the implementation.
In fact IMO Lemmy bots are already a bit too similar to Reddit bots in a bunch of undesirable ways. For example they’re created and kept as “pseudo-users”, instead of tools associated with a (human) user in their profile.
Tldr I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion.
Cake day?
I have no idea what day I first started using lemmy, or when I made an account. I’m okay not knowing.
As for “karma”, do any instances track total karma, or just per-comment? Honestly I don’t give a shit if my comments do well or not, I don’t live for other people’s amusement.
As for other people, I can’t speak for them, but I haven’t seen anyone crying for lemmy to be more like reddit.
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Mostly I like the ways it’s not like reddit, but I miss ‘disable inbox replies’
I didn’t think karma existed on Lemmy? Or maybe it was removed in ann update?
Users’ aggregate post and comment score has been entirely removed from the Lemmy API (as of version 0.19.0 if I remember correctly). It is not easily accessible to anyone, including admins. You could write a script to sum a user’s aggregate score.
its completely public via non-lemmy systems https://moist.catsweat.com/u/@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
Interesting. Your instance is from another platform, right? Is it Piefed or mbin?
Is this just basically karma or what does it mean?
Isn’t it worthless though? I mean I could award myself karma on my servers communities or just hack it up.
Well, in that your upvote total and ratio can be calculated, at least. Does it actually do anything, or can it do anything, like it did on reddit? Subs having minimum karma thresholds, that sort of thing? If not, it’s truly meaningless and can be safely ignored by everyone.
That’s what I do.
