It’s not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods… y’all just nice people. Lemmy’s got a good vibe going… or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.

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    1 year ago

    Do upvotes and downvotes work the same way here? If so, I fear that communities may become echo chambers too, in time.

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      1 year ago

      In a post and comment, yes. However your up vote vs down vote counts are not stored on your profile. It reduces the game-ification of the interactions.

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        It also depends where you’re reading from. Mastodon doesn’t sort at all, Kbin sorts differently from Lemmy, and one Lemmy instance might differ from the next. Even vote counts might differ between servers.

        In the end, the user experience here will be much more individual than on Reddit. What is the top post for you might not be the top post for me. :)

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      1 year ago

      I’m already noticing tons of comments getting down voted for seemingly just because people disagree so human nature makes a proper discussion difficult

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      They don’t have the same power over here. Especially on kbin where they pretty much equal “thank you for posting” and that’s about it. Boosting is where you become the algorithm and say “I think others need to see this!”