Does Lemmy sort posts by points or general participation? Because if they work like Reddit, I get what you’re saying. If not, then a downvote is just what it is - an easy way to disagree without commenting.
BTW I get what you’re saying, but I think each project focuses on what it deems important. That’s why the pop OS fork is way easier as a desktop installation.
About downvoting, as far as I can tell Lemmy’s default sort order is Hot, so most recent. But I usually switch it to Top, so by points. IMO downvoting to disagree is a complete anti-pattern. Effectively what you’re doing is silencing someone as a lazy alternative to expressing your disagreement with them. Literal cancel culture. They knew this 20 years ago, hence Slashdot abandoning downvotes in favor of words like “Interesting”, “Funny”, “Irrelevant” etc. But that was too complicated for the R-site, so here we are.
Does Lemmy sort posts by points or general participation? Because if they work like Reddit, I get what you’re saying. If not, then a downvote is just what it is - an easy way to disagree without commenting.
BTW I get what you’re saying, but I think each project focuses on what it deems important. That’s why the pop OS fork is way easier as a desktop installation.
About downvoting, as far as I can tell Lemmy’s default sort order is Hot, so most recent. But I usually switch it to Top, so by points. IMO downvoting to disagree is a complete anti-pattern. Effectively what you’re doing is silencing someone as a lazy alternative to expressing your disagreement with them. Literal cancel culture. They knew this 20 years ago, hence Slashdot abandoning downvotes in favor of words like “Interesting”, “Funny”, “Irrelevant” etc. But that was too complicated for the R-site, so here we are.
Well then, thank you for the information. I will now think twice before downvoting.