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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      You can post anything and it will get down voted.

      I disagree. Downvoting…

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      11 months ago

      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.

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

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          There’s also way less viewpoint diversity here. There’s a pretty narrow window of opinions on any given subject that’s tolerated.

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        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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months 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.

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    11 months ago

    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

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    11 months ago

    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 racism.

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      Every country that called itself communist claims to be working towards this, none have achieved it, most seem to have given up and instead settled on some form of authoritarianism and/or capitalism while claiming they are still working towards this goal.