I’ve been really enjoying my time here lately and I have noticed things.

  1. discussions are more chill. On Reddit people would get into flame wars over things and here while it happens it’s not as bad, and I actually enjoy spending time here.

  2. people are nicer.

  3. moderation is amazing.

  4. diversity in thoughts is also amazing.

EDIT:

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  • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, it took me a while to realize that broadcast content (things like YouTube) ca. benefit from downvotes (as it allows misinformation to be pushed down), it isn’t very useful in a discussion format.

    • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      It still very much was, solely within the scope of disinformation on subs I was on. It just also had unexpected consequences.

      • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve mostly just found that having downvotes ends up discouraging discussion (which is often the states reason for disabling them). With passive media that is already the normal state.

        • Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I only subbed to interests/hobbies and low-volume cute stuff, so I didn’t really get the full effect. I’ve seen it used to make a disliked-by-some valid point disappear, but maybe 1-4 times a year? It certainly wasn’t high on my list of Reddit vexes.

          • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, it’s not something I really saw in small communities, but once things get to what I’d think of as medium sized it started to be a problem.