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I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by LemmyBe to c/showerthoughts
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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (7 children)

2 small theories as to why this could be:

  1. Down vote count is shown. On reddit, a down vote, unless it put total karma from a comment into the negative, was imperceptible. I felt less bad about abusing the functionality and downvoting opinions I disagreed with

  2. Lemmy is a lot smaller than Reddit. Whereas on Reddit I might see a low-effort post and go "get this garbage off my feed" on Lemmy I'm like "YEAH! Way to populate my feed!"

[–] GonzoVeritas 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can also see exactly which user downvoted a post, it's in the log.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Normal users can see it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can? Everyday I'm learning something new :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Won’t find any downvotes from me, cuz I post from Mastodon. I kinda like it that way anyways. If you post something I don’t like, I’ll just have to get over myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only on kbin afaik. Lemmy-UI has no way to display it.

Keep in mind that anyone subscribing to ActivityPub events can see who voted for what and posted or edited. That's how federation works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think you can see logs on lemmy, I'm pretty sure I saw a beehaw log but I don't know how to access them

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