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What Fediverse instances would you recommend to others? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago* by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?

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[–] 16 points 7 months ago (16 children)

I don't like that you can't downvote, though.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Exactly. I look at downvotes on articles as a kind of fact curator. If an article has 50/50, you know it’s gotta be wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Discussion of an article's accuracy is what the comments are for; downvotes are a pretty bad indicator of this as they're largely used to indicate agreement with the post's title (which may include disagreeing with it's accuracy, message, vibe, spelling, etc.)

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    People also just downvote stuff they disagree with. If you use the downvotes on a post or comment as the indicator of whether it's correct or not you'll just end up believing only the things the majority of the users believe are true, instead of using evidence or any kind of facts.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I've only been outside of Hexbear (where there also are no downvotes) for a week and I hate having downvotes. Instead of people replying to something they disagree with with evidence and counterarguments, people just downvote and move on. They really shouldn't be used to downvote comments people disagree with (because that just promotes groupthink), ideally they'd just be used to downvote spam and low effort stuff; but moderators can take care of that, so what's the point?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I prefer that the community have some say in deciding what comments are objectionable rather than relying on mods for every little thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    If something is objectional you should say something about it, it's one thing for bots and spam, but if you see someone posting an unforced error, you should tell them they're wrong

    not to invoke leddit, but you should be able to communicate with other human beings

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Okay, so the community should be able to reply to the objectionable comments with the reasons why they think they're objectionable. All downvotes do is let people shut down the conversation without even thinking.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Sometimes comments are poor without being worthy of a conversation about it. The commenter can always ask if they see downvotes and are confused as to why.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    In that situation those low value comments that aren't explicitly rulebreaking just proceed to get no upvotes and are functionally the same as a comment that got downvoted. So there isn't really any value gained from having downvotes in this scenario, while they provide negative value in other scenarios.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    To be clear, one comment having 1-2 upvotes and a reply to it having a dozen or more upvotes gets that across just fine, it just requires the reply in the first place.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    OHHH THAT'S why Voyager gives me an error.

    Sigh, these are the things that might drive people away from Lemmy and Piefed. Lemmy devs are tankies, Piefed devs are weirdly puritanical, and instances won't tell you they don't allow downvotes.

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