I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.
I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?
i don’t miss those +1k comment threads, scrolling them gets annoying, also, i recused from commenting if there was already +150, otherwise was like talking to the void
Its interesting that on lemmy almost everyone gets some kind of upvote/downvote (interaction) whereas on reddit and other sites, you either get viral success or…nothing. No upvotes/downvotes no interactions. My theory is the algorithm + number of people de-humanizes the act of communication in such large communities.
i used to sort by r/new for years, i learned what mods liked to take down, so i didn’t waste time on those post, then make some funny/attempt-to-clever comment and watched raise to the front page as top comment, it was like playing a video game for me
OMG I did the same thing too… but the funny/sad thing was that I started doing those “typical reddit” comments that weren’t really insightful but got lots of upvotes. Then when I came here to Lemmy I had to stop myself from making those kinds of comments.
Human to me means small groups and being heard by other humans. I hope Lemmy doesn’t hyper-centralize.
I enjoyed the void, commenting into the void was my favorite pastime til I did it on an alt and got autopermbanned, some thread with thousands of comments and it instabanned all my alts and main account
It really helped the adhd, helped the anxiety knowing no one would probably see it or reply
you used it just to reply to yourself like you’re doing here? you can do that with messaging apps, unless you got a thrill from someone may be watching
It made me feel better that I was screaming into a void, no one would see it or reply, no pressure, I still wanted to say stuff, reminded me of twitter before I had hella ppl ik irl follow me, ruined it
Hey, unironically you should try one of those private social networks where it’s all just AI bots and you’re the only human. I mean, I hope you stay here too but it might help you to have a place where you can say things without human judgment but you still get some kind of feedback.