I experience Lemmy as a reflection of many of the problems in the world; there seems to be little effort to understand and respect different viewpoints. Instead of being curious about opinions one disagrees with, the community often feels almost aggressive. People end up in their own trenches. What about trying to be more open and curious about our differences instead?
Apparently we believe in freedom of speech—so long as the speech is something we agree with…
It’s the karma system. People stop talking to you and start performing for an audience instead. A good dunk never changed anyone’s mind - but it wasn’t intended to. They were just hoping for applause.
Then other people see what gets applause here and what gets booed, so they tweak their takes to match. Everyone likes applause and nobody wants to be booed. And that’s exactly how an echo chamber gets born.
very few instances have it enabled. calculating it from non-home instance is a bit pointless because heavily downvoted stuff tends to be moderated out and therefore inaccessible
if you mean downvotes in general, i think that’s a very good thing, because when you disagree with something, you can just downvote and move on, and when downvotes are out, it’s a shield for trolls and assholes, and additionally when disagreeing you feel compelled to comment instead and end up like hexbear
Post scores are visible for individual replies and that’s enough to signal to people what views are okay to share and which ones aren’t.
Yeah and it’s a good signal about what each instance is like, and where to move to
Well I fundamentally disagree with that as I’ve explained above.
Also, very few people just hang on their own instance. You’re a sopuli user replying to feddit user in a lemmy.world thread. Anyone can up- and downvote you here. The choise of instance doesn’t make much of a difference.