• @HamSwagwich
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    296 months ago

    You can post anything and it will get down voted. Lemmy is as toxic as reddit and people use downvote as a tool to suppress what they don’t like, regardless of the merit of the comment.

    • 520
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      166 months ago

      You can post anything and it will get down voted.

      I disagree. Downvoting…

    • @[email protected]
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      106 months ago

      The more I use it, the less I like it. For some reason, it feels like a majority of the people here are already angry and argumentative, and they are happy to snap and make me their current problem.

      The hive mind aspect is also ~5x worse than Reddit. People love to cover their ears here, even in constructive conversations. It’s a real shame.

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        100% people here are much more argumentative and angry and less likely to tolerate differing opinions

        • @[email protected]
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          26 months ago

          There’s also way less viewpoint diversity here. There’s a pretty narrow window of opinions on any given subject that’s tolerated.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        Huh. This hasn’t been my experience. I notice some hive-mindedness and meme responses, but in general I feel like high-quality comments are more visible here. I also put a lot more effort into my comments than I ever did on Reddit.

    • Kalash
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      96 months ago

      Downvoting doesn’t really suppress anything.

      Also you can effectivly disable it by switching to a frontend that hides votes and sorting by new. I think that’s even the default for some instances.

      • livus
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        26 months ago

        This, and moreover some instances don’t dederate downvotes.

        I’m on Kbin so I only see downvotes from other people on kbin.

        People on Beehaw don’t see downvotes from anyone because it’s not a thing there.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 months ago

      There is a tendemcy for what gets more downvotes.
      In particular anything not FOSS and Windows based.