I’ve seen the something similar on Mastodon. It’s become colonized by some of the worst of Twitter’s offal. A lot of them moved over to Bluesky, but I’ve seen a return since that platform’s shittiness finally emerged. Negative and fear-mongering news posts as well as entitled snark. It’s still better than the alternatives, but I’m starting to think that maybe the algorithms were only part of the overall problem… But at least I have the means to moderate what I see.
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amgine@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In regards to your edit: lemmy is quickly becoming an echo chamber of extreme pov’s and hot takes. You take the Reddit refugees and the Reddit banned users but leave the major casual users behind you get a lot of opinionated reactionary people in a relatively small place. Combine that with independently ran and lightly moderated servers.
I’ve been here for a while and at risk of sounding typical and repetitive of users of other platforms, it’s becoming shitty.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 4 days ago
Batmorous@lemmy.world 4 days ago
We must get more casual users here to balance it out
Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I honestly think every single platform that uses a vote score system is inherently vulnerable to becoming an echo chamber.
The only value a vote score generates is consensus. This is at the cost of influencing readers before they even engage the content. It lowers the bar of participation, partly by removing the necessity of commenting approval/disapproval, and secondarily by making approval/disapproval anonymous.
Ultimately it makes it easier for people to participate without actually contributing and that lowers the quality of the end result.
amgine@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I agree. I think hacker news does it well. No downvotes and upvotes are publicly hidden.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
I could see vote score being a valuable moderation tool on the backend.