Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit?

• NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Agreed. Lots of reasonable opinions (not just my own) get downvoted here.

  I’ve never been a fan of using downvotes as a disagree button and the issue seems even worse here than Reddit.

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  • mke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The more I see how people use downvotes, the less I like them as a feature in general. I make a point to not downvote things anymore.

    • Everyone can upvote, which already brings the most popular content to the top. Why does the system need another dimension to it?
    • If I disagree with someone enough to act on it, it’s my rule to explain why. A minus one is often nearly useless as feedback.
      • Then, when I’ve replied, what’s the point of downvoting? Everyone can read my thoughts.
      • Replies can also be upvoted, for people who think truth comes down to a battle of internet points.
    • If I honestly believe something is bad or harmful for the community, it should probably be reported, not (just) downvoted.

    Downvotes as they are seem like bad design on the human interaction level.

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  • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was going to say you can hide downvotes in your parameters, but your instance isn’t on 0.19.5 yet

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• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  anti-anything google

  I hear that. Went through the technical reasons for the manifest V2 deprecation (if this is only to target unlock origin, why did they implement filter lists into the browser? Why does unlock origin lite work just fine?) and it got down voted to oblivion. Haters gonna hate I guess :))

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  • mke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey, I agree that MV3 brings benefits (such as better security for the extension ecosystem), but it’s worth noting that uBlock’s main dev themselves said it won’t work as well. uBO Lite doesn’t work fine, it works. It’s also worse.

    And the same fundamental issue that affects ublock—the new API limits—affects everyone else trying to do the same job using extensions.

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  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I get the impression most lemmy users don’t have a lot of lived experience. Everyone deals in absolutes, and is unable to recognise nuance.

    Most contentious issues have a range of considerations, positive and negative.

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• GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because Microsoft sucks and Google sucks and if you install Linux there’s 50% chance it’ll cure someone’s cancer. Also if you’re at a bar and your pickup line is “I use arch” it’ll be like the fucking Niagara falls. If you’re into guys even their ass will go sploosh when they hear that line.

  What I’m getting at is that we’re just a superior being.

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  • kender242@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or that we are all refugees and are just tired of enshitification.

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• lol_idk@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You forgot Firefox

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