It looks like this was a larger decision from the lemmy development community in an attempt to eliminate karma farming. They say it’s psychologically damaging, and as someone who looks at them a lot, they may be right.

Here’s a GitHub thread discussing it where our Voyager dev weighs in:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3393#issuecomment-1779400639

  • @aehardingMEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Voyager could probably add a hidden feature, like long press post count label to switch to karma and compute karma, maybe for last 500 or so posts & comments (10 total requests).

    Because it would be a hidden feature requiring manual activation I doubt it would add server load. And being hidden means it also wouldn’t be an issue with karma farming.

    • ericOPEnglish
      0•1 year ago

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      • @aehardingMEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        Any terms of use are set by the instance owner, not the Lemmy development team. That’s part of why Lemmy (and federated software in general) is awesome!

        • ericOPEnglish
          -1•1 year ago

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          • @aehardingMEnglish
            4•1 year ago

            GNU AGPL is a standard open source license, even Voyager uses, and has 0 impact on how you consume a lemmy instance’s API. The GNU AGPL main sticking point is just making sure that if you modify the source code, you have to make that modified source code open source.