They might also be meaningless internet points. Who knows.
I hope Lemmy’s internet points never become a thing people view as important. The way people act on Reddit to get a handful of up votes is embarrassing.
Is never counted as a total right? As long as it stays that way it shouldn’t.
I’ve seen some front ends for Lemmy total it.
Yeah it exists in the metadata, so certain front ends can display it and other platforms like Mbin and PieFed show it as a reputation score or something like that.
I think the way that Lemmy handles it is perfect, there’s no reason to display the cumulative score and it definitely acts as a barrier to free and open discussion because people start censoring themselves and judging other users by their profile rather than the things they actually say.
Do the lemmy points actually matters ?
If you believe the points matter, they will, but only to some extent. If you couldn’t care less, you can also safely ignore the them completely.
I mean is it like a ranking system similar to Reddit?
Pretty much, yeah. The biggest difference is that the feed contains only the kind of stuff that should be there. Reddit likes to mix on some random trash that has nothing to do with anything besides engagement and ad revenue.
