There was a time when messages didn't have scores. ;)
I like the idea of the score modifying placement in the comment tree, but not being visible. I also like the idea of a more expressive score (maybe normalized), I suppose like the emoji systems do, to indicate funny, angry, etc, rather than some silly binary.
but all the edits made me reconsider
not worry about how many people up/down-ticked our comment.
The first was an afterthought that I wanted to include. The second was because I realized my time trying Voat was close to the hate subs that the majority of the comments here are about. Neither were about up/down, I was just trying to be polite by making the additions clear, since there's no indicator in my UI.
The last one was a lighthearted joke. I thought the last few sentences of it would make that clear. With an empty /m/funny and /m/jokes, and a /m/memes full of constipation, I'm beginning to suspect my humor may not be well align here.
But, I do think it's silly that given an opinion about my experience, on a question requesting an opinion about that event, results in downvotes. I guess I don't get the point of this place.
Well, there's always whitespace!
your ridiculous all or nothing speculation
How is it ridiculous? It's my 2 cent opinion, lightly founded in observation of when this happened several times in the past, with reddit and several other platforms, to a question in a forum about questions, that requires speculation about the future.
There's not a correct or incorrect answer here, just a bunch of idiots guessing. Feel free to influence the future with downvotes though. I'll continue enjoying reading what people have to say.
What if I aim low? Like, "please include the letter c in your next commit"? Will that hit hard enough? Or should I go for a whole word? Come on, I need this!
And, they'll all still be wrong!
I have a few ideas on how to clog my bowels. I really can't wait to contribute!!!
Ok, now let's ask the 99.9% of Redditors that aren't here. You take the left 25,000,000, I'll take the right, meet back in 5. Go!
edit: Oh man, I'm out of breath. We might need help. How about every single lemmy user helps us! That's only about 1,300 people we each have to ask! Well, 1,299 for me. At 4 seconds each, that's should only be about 1.5 hours. See you all soon!
Taking away popular apps to a social network that doesn't have any yet? What? Most users won't see that as a positive, in the medium term.
We would have to see the user stats related to reddit app usage, to talk in an informed way about this, along with the assumption that reddit doesn't improve their app, which will probably be forced onto spez (assuming he isn't kicked out as an atonement/scape goat).
edit: Here's a quick litmus test. How many times have you gone to reddit today?
I don't know, I was there in the beginning. I think it died because it had no real content, compared to reddit. And, all anyone talked about was reddit, or reposted stuff from reddit, just like we're seeing here. I think this might stick a bit better because reddit is way bigger than it was back then, so even if the same super small % of users came over, it would still be quite a bit more content.
For comparison of how negligible all the Lemmy fediverse is, there are ~40k active users this month. Reddit has over 50 million active users. So, that's around 0.1% of reddit users. Literally 99.9% of reddit are not here.
I think it's probably doomed. It'll never overtake reddit. But, it'll be a nice, quiet, alternative.
edit: Here's a quick litmus test for all the downvoters (I guess "correct" answers only here!). How many times have you gone to reddit today?
edit: I was part of this attempted migration, not the hate one. This isn't the first blackout for reddit being shitty.
edit: I humbly apologize for my personal, speculative, opinion about the unknowable future. The downvotes have made me realize my math was wrong, my opinion is wrong, and I am wrong. My corrected opinion is that Lemmy will overtake Meta, Mastadon, Twitter, and Google (wtf is reddit!?), and every upvote will be worth $1000, making everyone rich! Or, we can have fun guessing, and wait and see how things go. I hope they go well!
And, of course it's a Florida man.
I think most of the answers to your questions can be answered by the question that this comment section is responding to, to understand the framing that I'm commenting in:
But, this is the first and last Reddit related thread that I plan on participating in, so I'll be cheering with you, if we ever get the miracle of reddit evaporating. Although, I would be worried where they would all end up.