“this is almost as good as reddit”
This is a good one. Lemmy is good, but not being able to create avatars or give wholesome awards to posts kinda makes me want to go back
(I had to forcibly remind myself that we’re upvoting what we’d normally downvote. Good work!)
I think Spez was just misunderstood.
“We should federate with Threads.”
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.
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.
A lot of users here were pushed out of other communities. They carry the toxicity with them.
Huh, this is a great point. I haven’t thought about that.
100% people here are much more argumentative and angry and less likely to tolerate differing opinions
There’s also way less viewpoint diversity here. There’s a pretty narrow window of opinions on any given subject that’s tolerated.
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.
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.
I think you fell for the comment that would be guaranteed to be downvoted.
There is a tendemcy for what gets more downvotes.
In particular anything not FOSS and Windows based.Mmmmmmeta
This just feels like rage bait
I’m currently commenting on all the Linux communities - “I don’t have this problem because I use Windows” and they’re not seeing the irony
Taylor Swift is the first ethical billionaire
R.I.P. Kissinger
Firefox sucks.
All the failed examples of communism that people say “that’s only because it wasn’t really communism” are really proof of why communism can’t work at all. If a system is what it does, then communism always creates facism.
Edit: autocorrect originally changed it to “racism”. Still got upvote lol
Isn’t Facebook free software, since it doesn’t cost anything?
I’m going to get downvoted for this, but…
Elon Musk is right.
Cars are awesome! Everyone should own at least 3 or 4 of them!
Loving Israel, Reddit and capitalism.
