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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

You can post anything and it will get down voted.

I disagree. Downvoting...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of users here were pushed out of other communities. They carry the toxicity with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, this is a great point. I haven't thought about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think you fell for the comment that would be guaranteed to be downvoted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago