I’ve been here since the great Reddit Exodus and have seen some good and some bad.
What have you liked and disliked about being on Lemmy so far?
Do you see your usage going up or down?
I’ve been here since the great Reddit Exodus and have seen some good and some bad.
What have you liked and disliked about being on Lemmy so far?
Do you see your usage going up or down?
My usage will probably go down. Lemmy has the same flaw of every “vote up/vote down” site: groupthink wins. Bray what the majority believes, you get voted up. Say something the majority doesn’t believe, you get voted down. Truth or falsehood doesn’t matter in either direction, only popularity.
Lemmy is doomed to become like every other vote up/down site: filled with popular opinion at the top, without any regard for whether the opinion involved is true or not. This makes it essentially useless except as a place to make yourself feel better by seeing how everybody agrees with you … if you’re a member of the majority opinion.
You’re not wrong. I’ve tried to see if we could shut off downvotes for our community, but no luck. Admins also don’t have an interest in turning it off instance-wise.
The best I can do for now is make it a sidebar rule, but that’s… not adhered to by outsiders trying to hit the “fuck you” button to get their tiny bit of dopamine. Doing what I can though to make this a better sub!
I’m thinking about moving to Reddthat.com as they disabled downvotes.
I also think that public downvotes could help with that.
Yes, the (perceived) anonymity of up- and down-votes definitely contributes to the negativity. But I’d rather remove the voting period. “Truth does not change with the number of votaries” and all that rot.
It’s true that upvotes could be a way to astrosurf, but as they are public at least you can identify bots and vote manipulation
I’m not even talking about astroturf, though. I’m talking about groupthink.
Yes, that as well