I don’t remember what caused the Voat’s origin, except it involved Reddit HQ. And then it went under in 2020.

What’s different about this time and with Lemmy to make it a feasible alternative to Reddit? Is it random chance?

  • refugeered@kbin.social
    11·
    2 years ago

    I do not know how to solve this but the disagree = down vote thing has gone crazy. It seems to have become next to impossible to have a civil discussion online nowadays about an alternate opinions. It feels like everyone just wants to have their beliefs confirmed and never have their opinions questioned.

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Or maybe up and downvotes are meaningless and karma has no value. I think it’s a way of polling opinion on a topic. Lemmy is not Reddit. Users have no accumulated karma, downvotes don’t hide comments and Post’s default comment sort is by New.

      • TheDeadGuy@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        People are really bent out of shape with others disagreeing with them. You aren’t being silenced, you’re being polled and that’s not a problem.

        Now if you are harassed because of it, that’s a different subject than a simple downvoted. That’s why I love the transparency here

    • Biscuit@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      There was a time when messages didn’t have scores. ;)

      I like the idea of the score modifying placement in the comment tree, but not being visible. I also like the idea of a more expressive score (maybe normalized), I suppose like the emoji systems do, to indicate funny, angry, etc, rather than some silly binary.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve had plenty of civil discussions online where I had an alternate opinion from the zeitgeist. On Reddit.

      Generally speaking, if you aren’t alt right scum, people are agreeable. If you believe people should be allowed to live how they want as long as it isn’t hurting people, and nobody should be treated differently because of an inherent, born characteristic, people may not be happy with your opinion but they’ll at least listen to you.