• @[email protected]
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    11 month ago

    Just got majorly downvoted on works for asking why free speech is a bad thing and the only response was a snarky comment saying I’m from 300 years ago.

    I’m about to delete my account after being on here for a year and a half because most popular Lemmy instances are just turning into the worst parts of twitter exiles.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      Don’t be childish, you must know that going against the circlejerk/hivemind is a guaranteed downvote brigade on any social media site. But depending on the thread/community/server/phase of the moon, the hivemind can believe completely contradictory things.

      You just have to read the room, and if you’re going against the general mood in the thread, you have to put in extra effort to get your point across. And sometimes you just wear the downvotes like a badge of honor, because it means you’re not a sheep.

      • Zeppo
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        61 month ago

        That was my experience in topical sections of reddit. Often the first few comments determined how the entire post would go, and you could get completely different results saying the same thing on different days. Same with replies I guess.

        • @whotookkarl
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          51 month ago

          Different time of day and week in smaller communities can contribute as well to pretty big shifts in response.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        I guess because Lemmy is getting so many more active users after twitter and Reddit fallouts that some of the qualities that it used to have regarding are being drown out.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      31 month ago

      You mean sh.itjust.works when you say works?