This hasn’t been my experience at all. Especially in lemmy.ml worldnews threads which get constantly brigaded by tankies.
Edit - it seems I replied to the wrong comment
Eh I still like downvotes and find myself just not enjoying beehaw as much without them. I mostly just don’t get the moral panic over having a disagree button more than anything.
And I downvoted because “I have special eyes” posts are cringe.
The problem is that there’s no way to enforce this in practice. All of these conversations about voting culture, with examples and pontificating always just come off as “everyone who drives slower than me is a grandpa, everyone who drives faster than me is a lunatic.”
Downvotes will always be an “I disagree” button no matter what anyone wants or thinks.
Holy shit are we the same person?
I used to straight up nap in the shower as a kid. My parents thought I was jerking off but I was legitimately just taking a power nap.
It would be nice to have a place to discuss world events without trolls brigading every thread.
The infamous FBI crime statistics are probably the big one
Yup. The only thing I am still doing on Reddit is following the Ukraine threads. So far the only discussions I’ve found on Lemmy have been about 90% Tankie brain rot.
The word “based”
This is the big one
It is surely going to be a bigger time sink and possibly more effective skinner box if I have to click back and forth between half a dozen different communities to follow different threads on stuff like breaking news or game/event threads.
I think this will ultimately be polarizing, but I also kind of think it will have a lot of really interesting side effects as it scales.
If there is not already a way to combine communities into a single feed, surely there will be soon.
Fuck beehaw. All my homies hate beehaw.
First comment. Still getting used to the whole fediverse concept. Super cool so far though.
You are ignoring how trolls operate in reality though. THey explicitly use “just having an opinion” as cover for shitting up a forum. Look up “sealioning.”
But again, this is my opinion. People are far too concerned about the downvote button. And the fact that the above, completely respectful but seemingly controversial opinion already has downvotes kind of proves my point.