You mean like a total upvote count? Don't think lemmy has it. From what I gather the points on individual posts is solely for determining visibility.
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The karma score in Reddit is the result of all upvotes received minus downvotes. Which can also result in a negative score (under zero). As far as I was concerned it was useful to me to have in Reddit an overall image about the appreciation of my posts and comments.
Yeah, I don't think Lemmy has it. And I'm not sure it would have functioned in that way on a federated system like Lemmy. The increasing mono-culture on reddit would give you an impression of the community appreciation but Lemmy is made up of several, distinctly different communities. A post or comment could get a lot of support by libertarians and opposed by communists. Or the other way around, in the end netting you a somewhat neutral score.
I had not thought of that and I rather agree. However, I meant a karma score that only I can see, so I can see if I am in the wrong place with the right ideas or viceversa... 😄
You'll just have to try different communities (subreddits) and gauge the reactions, comments and points.
https://sopuli.xyz/post/247640 is a growing list of different communities for specific topics.