• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    People go there because they don’t care about interacting with other human beings. They just want an echo chamber and to occasionally feel like they are an Influencer.

    And you can see the same at lemmy. Someone posts something someone doesn’t like? Immediate downvote (and, for the more pathetic people, downvoting on a few alts as well) with no comment or even attempt to refute things other than MAYBE an ad hominem. And plenty of “What is your favorite X” spam-engagement posts that just involve repeating whatever marketing schpiel they heard in the past.

    There has been a recent tendency for people to reference social media network sites that are nothing but bots and… it is increasingly obvious that that is what most people want. They want to feel like they are the tastemakers. They want to be moistcritical without needing to focus test the most normy of center-right takes.

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      2 months ago

      Someone posts something someone doesn’t like? Immediate downvote

      Well, yeah. That is what the button is for.

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          2 months ago

          It’s supposed to be for whatever the fuck you want to use it for. There’s no downvote police on lemmy.
          Personally, I upvote every reply I get and nothing else.

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                2 months ago

                Sometimes it seems like Lemmy users sort by most negative first just so they can keep dogpiling on the comments with negative vote score.

                Which is a Reddit behaviour, and probably came from whatever existed before Reddit too.