• Captain Poofter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Half my comments just get downvoted for no reason. I told someone I was sorry their houses got messed up by tornados…two down votes. Like I know karma doesn’t matter, but it’s not fun or encouraging to see and has genuinely made me post less.

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      1 year ago

      One thing I like about Lemmy is that it shows upvotes and downvotes separately in addition to the composite score.

      When I make a controversial post that gets 7 upvotes and 20 downvotes, I think “Man, this was a good post. 7 people liked it”. On Reddit, I would just think 13 people downvoted it. If anything, on Lemmy downvotes are just proof that I made someone I don’t like mad on the Internet, which is great.

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        1 year ago

        Oh? I use Liftoff and don’t see that information! I think I’d like that better, too, I think all it’s showing me now is the composite.

        What do you use so I can check it out? Or is it the default web browser?

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            1 year ago

            Thanks, I only tried jerboa briefly after switching from Reddit but quickly stopped using it because lift off had a better theme imo, but I may just not care and prefer extra features! Suppose I could do a feature request for liftoff, too.

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        1 year ago

        Yea but then you miss out on 99% of the fediverse. Although if that 99% is just shitposts and bullshit then maybe that is the better solution. I really do not know.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not that I wanna get rid of downvotes, I think down voting is a good feature. It just feels like people are more downvote happy here, even though it doesn’t mean anything. It’s like instead of it not meaning anything making people use it less, it actually make some people use it more specifically because it “doesn’t mean anything”. I’m not sure if this is just mean people being negative or just trying to get their own post more attention, but I’ve definitely noticed it.

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          1 year ago

          If it doesn’t mean anything, maybe what you could do is charge your perspective and stop caring. I get downvoted all the time and it doesn’t stop me.

          🤡 🥲 wait

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            1 year ago

            I could also change my perspective and just delete this app and cut toxic unfriendly stuff out of my life and read more books, instead of changing my perspective just to fit in on the internet with strangers who don’t and won’t ever know me🤷‍♂️