to be fair though, getting a 1000+ upvote post on Lemmy feels like whatever drug Musk is on constantly

Karma farming is horrible.

I hand out up votes like candy because engagement is how we're going to get new users and kill the other site. I'd rather people karma farm here than by putting money in the pockets of the ultra-rich tbh

Can't say I've ever seen that happen.

I was unsure about the change back when 'Karma' counts were removed from Lemmy. I don't think that I have missed them ever, as a user, mod, or admin.

i think user total upvotes/downvotes is public, so people can check it out if that's their thing

Karma-farming on Lemmy makes basically no sense because it doesn't even natively report it. I installed a Firefox add-on that tabulates it but it's slow and clunky. Functionally no one sees a user's karma.

I do miss seeing my total points even though it means nothing. Number go up means brain feel nice.

But please sir. My family is starving.

What is this "Karma" they speak of ?

Edit: wow this really blew up! Thanks for the gold kind stranger