There’s some misinformation floating around regarding Lemmy not having a karma system. While many have discovered otherwise, this is for those who may not have.
While it’s not exposed in the Lemmy default user interface, Lemmy does have a fully functional karma system and it is visible in third party clients such as WefWef and Memmy.
Do with that what you will.
Are you telling me I wasted my time manually tallying up my karma with calculator to track my karma-whoring activity?
Total points comes back from an endpoint, so if you hit that endpoint it tallies it for you.