• Deebster@programming.dev
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          11 months ago

          No, the downvote is meant to be for things that don’t contribute to the discussion, not for things you disagree with.

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            Is this documented for Lemmy or just grandfathered from Reddit?

            Not all instances even support upvotes. Some only support downvotes. Does every instance have to agree on the meaning?

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              Good question. The documentation says:

              On the left side of each post there are up and down arrows, which let you upvote or downvote it. You can upvote posts that you like so that more users will see them. Or downvote posts so that they are less likely to be seen.

              which doesn’t really back me up.

              My downvote principle was meant more generally - most places that have a downvote policy say that it’s not meant for shouting down people you disagree with, since that’s not conducive for civil and nuanced conversations.

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            11 months ago

            Explain the downvotes for my “unrelated” comment which is apparently more unrelated than someone posting just “shut up”.

        • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
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          Upvotes and downvotes are only there to tell people with no wrinkles how they should feel about a post. It creates a preconceived bias.

          Shut up.

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          11 months ago

          Scolding is the highest form of contribution. Don’t forget to turn on the roomba

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          That is not censorship, my smooth friend. Nobody is censoring anybody in this context.

          If you turn your tv off during a newscast are you censoring the broadcaster?

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            If my broadcaster blocks the news segments they don’t want me to see, it is. That’s what’s happening here. Instance owners are taking it upon themselves to block content from users. Bullying pieces of shit are trying to strong arm instance owners into defederating.

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        If the Threads-blocking instances have this level of maturity, I don’t think we’ll be missing much. Being equally childish as Facebook comments is impressive.

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            I’d throw some articles showing user counts, but you’d probably just call them fake.

            But if you are actually curious, I can gladly provide some. There was just recently a big influx of users with the EU launch, a tagging system was recently introduced, and more and more large creators have continued to migrate over.

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          Buh bye! Go to threads then, I seriously dont care.

          Facebook has shown time and time again they can not be trusted with anything.

          From spreading miss information to starting a coup and every shitty thing between.

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            Already there actually and have had a pretty good experience, though it doesn’t scratch that same Reddit-style itch nor is it trying to. It’s chilling at somewhere around 100 million users, so I’m not the only one.

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        Honestly, with the user level blocking feature in personally against instance level blocking as well.

        1. I strong believe in user choice. It’s clear from this thread that there isn’t an overwhelming majority in favor of instance blocking threads. There does not appear to be one that’s not in favor.

        1a) if the instance held a vote on the matter id naturally accept the majority choice.

        1. if privacy is a concern (which it should be because Facebook), we’re already screwed. Fediverse interactions (comments posts votes) are a matter of public record. So even if we block threads at the instance level, they can still zuck up our data so we’re not really gaining anything there.

        Edit: if you’re going to down ote, be better than reddit and expand your thoughts. We’re here to discuss, not act like children redditors