I just noticed that active users on Lemmy got slashed, what happened?
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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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I think because we have mostly memes and any discussion is just won by downvoting your opponent. :)
I'm half serious... The platform right now is lacking actual discussions. Everyone seems to just like memes.
I keep promoting the non-memes communities every time I can (usually on !newcommunities@lemmy.world ), after a while it just seems like most of the users do not actually even want to discuss that much, just look at memes (which is also fine)
Thank you!
Unfortunately, the Lemmy community copied opinion downvoting from Reddit.
There are good reasons to downvote, but a different opinion is not one of them. This just leads to echo chambers.
There are 3 options: upvote, downvote and the 3rd one is just not clicking anything.
I think voting should be as what was originally set out by Reddit; I don't know if it's still in their guidelines. The voting system indicates the relevancy of the contribution and whether it adds to the discussion or not. Spam and off-topic contributions gets shoved to the bottom and everything else rises to the top.
Obviously most people on Reddit these days use it as a like/dislike, agree/disagree voting system as well.
Does Lemmy instance owners and community mods ban people for having a different opinion that's so benign?
Some Reddit mods attempt to be authoritative and ban people who hold different opinions to themselves. I know I have and I stay out of subs that relate to politics, the news, and anything divisive really.
Literally all my downvotes are from people with different options. This is a huge echo chamber. I rarely insult anyone and I'm always polite. I don't believe vaccinations are safe for everyone since there are side effects, and I think each person should make their own decision about them. I don't think gender issues are the most important thing in the world.
These are controversial opinions on this platform. :) And I get a lot of downvotes for those opinions when they show up. Not that I care, because I just ignore it. But in the larger picture, it makes people leave the platform.
Why should they stay? I think Lemmy needs to have a good reason to be used. Memes won't be enough.
I still like the idea of a platform without big tech though. I just think most people don't realize what makes people stay on a platform. It's not memes.
I downvoted you
Alright. Want a reward? :)
Yeah :D
Memes and tech
Edit: and politics
Honestly I've just blocked most of the meme comms 😅. It's easy to see memes when I want to anyway by just opening a private window where I'm not logged in and going to the all feed. It's always mostly memes anyway. Then when I'm logged in, I can see some other stuff without all the memes clogging up my feed.
Same here
Not to mention the deluge of posts/comments advocating greater violence in the name of stopping violence. Honestly? I think people are just waking up to the fact that behind the techno babble and ideological propaganda, Lemmy is a social network just like any other.