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I went through the options on the Lemmy and say you can turn off all any display of voting and even the icon for the voting feature. Has you done this? Has it changed your experience of Lemmy?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I use Lemmy a lot to debate or read other people's perspectives. While content is more important than the vote count, I'm still interested to see what are (un)popular opinions here (knowing that it definitely doesn't represent the general public!).

Unfortunately, seeing the votes immediately also increases your bias towards posts or comments, so it may have a negative impact on on your individual free thinking.

An ideal compromise for me would be to see how other people voted, but only after I voted myself.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm using an app called Thunder and I have voting turned off for posts. For threads I have an up vote arrow when the comments are expanded, but if I collapse them I can see the count, which kind of does what you're asking? No idea how I managed to get that configured though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That would be a really cool feature

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Already exists. Go to your user settings and deselect show upvote and show downvote scores.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I was referring to the commenter's last sentence

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I've turned them off. For some reason my brain takes vote numbers really personally and not seeing them makes me feel freer to comment whatever I like. Also I think the text/replies should speak for themselves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Speaks for itsef!

[โ€“] Cattail 2 points 2 days ago

I decided to make an account on libretechni it's federated and it has no down votes just want to see how that works out

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I chose blahaj not just because I support our trans brothers, sisters, and non-binaries, but also explicitly because it does not federate downvotes.

There's a massive difference in how it feels to only see upvotes alone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If you consider upvotes but ignore downvotes wouldn't that give you quite a weird picture in case of controversial posts? Assuming there's a racist or transphobic post with 100 downvotes and 5 upvotes, would that be displayed as +5? Or does it not show any votes at all?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It displays as +5.

racist or transphobic

That stuff just gets removed. Admin and mods on blahaj don't fuck around, really.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for the explanation. Maybe my example was too extreme but unless they remove everything that's even slightly controversial, that can give a pretty wrong impression IMO. Wouldn't be for me at least.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When it looks like this

+5

+100

+3

+86

You can still tell.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Sometimes that's just the up/downvote train. Sometimes people will just see the first couple of comments in an argument and just downvote/upvote alternatingly. Despite the idea that the votes are usually for what contributes to discussion, and not agree/disagree votes...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

As @[email protected] got at, it encourages ratioing and directly countering instead of silently downvoting. Bad takes are more directly combatted, and furthermore minority groups can't be downvote harrassed.

[โ€“] Cattail 3 points 2 days ago

I like the idea of an instance not having down votes that way. I assume that you could go to another instance and participate and no one could down vote you

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why No supporting us non binary trans people :'(

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is 'non binary trans' a thing? I hope I don't offense anyone but so far I though...

  • Trans = swap male to female or vice versa
  • Non-binary = no defined gender / neither male nor female

If you're non-binary what do you transition from/to?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Transgender is a gender thats different from what your assigned at birth. Not binary. Can be any gender.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So if I'm born male and identify non-binary, that would be considered trans as well? If I got that right my definition of trans was apparantly too binary. :D

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you are assigned male at birth yes, remember that sex and gender are different things.

Trans just basically means your not the gender you was assigned at birth. So yes it was to binary and thank you for recognizing that. Very much appreciated

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thank you for the explanation!

Edit: If you don't mind a follow-on question: Is my former binary definition applicable when we're talking about 'transsexual' rather then 'transgender'? And when someone says just 'trans' in the queer community without any suffix, does that typically refer to -gender or -sexual?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Transsexual is an old, negatively coded word (with use as far back as the Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975). Transgender is the preferred nomenclature.

It was a derogatory term that implies that being transgender has something to do with sex and not an expression of gender.

Asexuals, who are disinterested in sex, can be transgender. Calling them a "transsexual" implies that there is a sexual expression happening.

When you express your gender (whatever it is), do you feel like you are being sexual? I would wager most don't think they're being sexual simply walking around being who they are.

That's why the term for non-trans people is "cisgender" not "cissexual."

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Personally, I'm not offended when referred to as '-sexual'. In general, I don't see my gender as an important part of my identity. I guess I'm 'just' cis male but I don't see that as restrictive in any way.

But thanks for your explanation! Good to know that there's a negative connotation tied to that term and other people might be offended. I'll try to keep it in in mind for future discussions. :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sorry I didn't mean to imply I didn't support the non-binary among us, that was bad phrasing on my part. Of course I support their right to be who they are.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Totally understandable, just was pointing it out. :) no worries