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I recently came across a Reddit post with a greentext also posted here a few weeks before (by me). While the one here got downvoted, the one on Reddit got over two thousand upvotes. Don’t take me wrong however, this has led me to realize how much morals differ between the two platforms; it seems to me like Lemmings have overall better morals in general. I’ve come to appreciate this. Evidence like this shows how much better Lemmy is as a community (excluding lemmygrad) when compared to Reddit. Instead of becoming what you swore to destroy, you became better a better version. I thought you all would find this interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

OP you made the classic mistake of thinking that lots of upvotes means that lots of people agree with the thing stated in post.

It was upvoted there because it contains the nword. It was downvoted here for the same reason. /s

But seriously people upvote and downvote for lots of stupid reasons. Often posts just need an inital wave of up/down votes and anyone that comes after will just go with the preexisting judgement out of herd mentality.

[–] TexasDrunk 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I have upvoted you because I like your username.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanks, i used my passwordmanager to generate a random 2 word passphrase and kept reshuffling until i found a cool sounding combination. All of my usernames are random ones like that :D

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And I upvoted you because you upvoted their username.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Upvoted because i enjoy sugar in my tea

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] EldenLord 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you say that honey in tea is acceptable?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] EldenLord 2 points 1 week ago

I agree, I'm not a fan of honey in tea myself. However I don't judge people for liking it, as some people simply frefer sweetness. Plain sugar is unacceptable tho, also in coffee

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

i have upvoted you because I like the colour blue

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've changed apps since then but Jerboa allowed you to hide the vote count so you couldn't see what everyone else voted for. It was interesting turning it on and off to see how I voted compared to the herd

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would be interesting to have it behave like polls where it shows the results after you voted.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I agree! I made a post on Boost's community because that's what I use currently

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

It was actually downvoted because the screenshot isn't mobile-friendly. /s

[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Morals, lol. Half of lemmy is tankies that unironically think the guys was great. That's one for reddit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm seriously anything but a Mao simp. But afaik, the famine in China wasn't done on purpose, while the Germans industrialized murder.

[–] Warl0k3 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Really, the famines were due to the great leap forward killing off everyone who knew how to prevent a famine. Though iirc it's argued that in a few regions the famines were intentional genocide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Though iirc it's argued that in a few regions the famines were intentional genocide.

There is no proof!!! These dead kulaks don't count!!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Just like in the USSR 🤡

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Seriously, I assumed it was downvoted because the hexbear and lemmygrad chuds got butthurt.

[–] RunawayFixer 56 points 2 weeks ago

What I find annoying about these memes is that it's always about how Germany killed 6 million Jews during ww2, while they actually killed 17 million ordinary people in ethnically motivated mass killings. That's 11 miillions victims of ethnic cleansing that seem to be forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

Before reading the OOP itself, I thought this post was comparing cropping/orientation etiquette.

[–] chronotron 31 points 2 weeks ago

no, it's because people think mao was right here

[–] Thcdenton 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Seriously, they can't possibly not understand there may be more at work than talking about historical figures.

[–] Sanctus 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did that post call Hitler the n word? That probably has more to do with the downvotes here

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I just checked the OOP on Reddit, and it is indeed censored there (not just censored by OP here). Lemmy version does not seem to be similarly censored. You may be onto something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do people really care if it is censored or not?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently.

[–] Blue_Morpho 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy.world does censor it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

I remember removing that post after someone reported it, but it wasn't a judgement of you, OP.

Most of us get that Anon uses bad language and that reading it isn't the same as agreeing with it, but I thought seeing an uncensored N word was going to be over the line for this group.

[–] radix 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reddit content is posted by bots and/or upvoted by related bot farms. No human general morality is involved in what gets popular.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I went back to Reddit the other day because there was a thread discussing the exact problem I was trying to solve. Like 3/8 of the comments were ChatGPT outputs that were added to the thread years after it was posted

[–] EldenLord 2 points 1 week ago

That's why I left reddit years ago. The number of posts per day grew but the amount of useful information and interaction fell off so hard by the time botfarms and AI models became popular.

Dead internet theory is real, and it will spread everywhere! I dread the day when I will open discord and a popup tells me: "New beta feature: Augmented voice channels! Connect with your friends over our new AI helper bots."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Lemmy post got deleted, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let me guess tankies didn't like that ditaste a modal Lemmy has for genocide daddies...

The horror!

Looks like it was removed because screen had n word lol

This censorship is idiotic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No need to make up a reason. The modlog clearly states one, and it's the latter. I mean, feel free to host your own instance or community if you don't like the atmosphere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the beauty of fedi... I can have my opinion and you can mod as you please

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Windex007 7 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know anything about China, and I don't use votes as "I agree" so I have no idea what this is about

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

We sure do live in a society.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Mickey7 0 points 2 weeks ago

I've found that in general people here think for themselves. On reddit most everyone becomes a member of a hive and all "think" as one. And it's more like automatically reacting vs. actual "thinking"