Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It’s devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.
Lemmy doesn’t track an account’s karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won’t affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.
Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won’t be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.
People are deleting their account because imagined karma being low? Why do people even care. I have no idea how much karma I have and it’s pointless to know.
That really is the max sillyness, caring about points and likes on social media.
There’s bots on Lemmy that vote farm. There really is no sense to any of it.
On reddit if you have a low karma your account gets severely limited. Shadow bans, you can’t post on many subreddits etc.
But there’s no such issues here most of the time. Each post / comment stands by its own merit.
Because there is no such a thing as karma on lemmy. Upvotes dont sum up anywhere for us to see.
Lemmy is great! A post in one community can be heavily downvoted but in another would be upvoted to heaven. E.g. Ukraine@lemmy.ml and Ukraine@sh.itjust.works. Teaches us to read the room.
I really hope it’s not made visible ever. Even reset every day would be good. We shouldn’t care about silly things like that.
The only thing that exists here is user level upvotes/downvotes.
Lemmy lets you see how many times you’ve liked another person’s previous comments/posts. So your personal score appears next to people for you to see only. I like this more this a karma system since it makes Lemmy a bit more tight knit.
I’ve been surprised a few times now though with users I’ve liked in the past making comments that were not so great down the line, but it makes me have to accept the reverse as well. Some people I must have really disagreed with in previous conversations have almost made great points and I ended up agreeing with them in those instances.
TL;DR: Not everyone’s perfect but people can grow and it’s good to give them room to do so was my takeaway.