For me, it’s the lack of diversity in opinions. IDK about you but I’ve only seen people from here and lemmygrad.ml, and nearly everyone is pretty far left. I’m not having a big problem with it, but the site is very, umm, single-minded.
And this mind is particularly hostile to my ideas
Personally, I’ve been generally happy with Lemmy overall. There are some minor UI quirks, but overall it’s been great and I really like the community here. It’s refreshing to have a forum that’s politically left.
Devs: Openly communist
Libs: Wouldn’t it be better you guys tried to be a bit more like redditors? 🤔
it kinda annoys me that there’s a lot of China/NK simps here. I mean it doesn’t bother me too much but it will definitely cripple the ability for this project to grow
for me, it’s not being able to flag posts for mod review. i’d open an issue on GitHub, but social anxiety
My only complaint about Lemmy is that it doesn’t render correctly on certain browsers like Waterfox and Pale Moon due to the fact that
it’s written in Rustit requires the unloading of CSS. This isn’t Lemmy’s fault, rather it’s the problem of the other browsers because they don’thave Rust supporthave support for CSS unloading.Someone seems to be stalking me and down-votes nearly all my posts (＞﹏＜)
But actually… I have the suspicion that some people here run alternative accounts to strawman etc. certain arguments, which in a few rare cases is understandable but in general just dishonest and a bad praxis.
We could find out who downvotes you, but it would be complicated and I’m not sure it would be a good idea.
Out of curiosity why would it be a potentially bad idea? Someone downvoted all of my replies to a controversial post I made in a thread immediately after I made the posts. I’m curious if it was the same person or multiple people. Complexity aside, would knowing who downvoted you encourage harassment of the voter? On discourse for example you can see who upvoted and downvoted you. On reddit this isn’t the case.
People will mostly stop down-voting if it is easy to figure out who down-voted. And then you end up with up-votes only, similar to likes on other social networks. There is a lot to be said about pros and cons of either system, but giving people some popular feed-back that they might be on a wrong track has some benefits IMHO.
Eventually we’ll add a user setting to hide scores, which would mitigate a lot of ppls anxiety about seeing scores / downvotes.
We had a similar idea in lemmur, though we were thinking about the bias it causes rather than the anxiety. But of course anxiety about scores is also a very valid reason to hide them. Therefore we will hold off with implementing it and wait for the official user setting to appear :)
From a reader perspective I find it to be more cathartic to downvote an idea i disagree with than educational as a post maker that my opinion is unpopular. Especially if someone indiscriminately starts downvoting be because of a grudge. If anything it makes me think “wow these people are ignorant.” This is admittedly self-centered, but with anonymity on the internet, and a lot of the half-baked raw thoughts that get shared on forums like this, I get the perspective that’s what most posters would feel like when they receive downvotes. I’ve certainly witnessed it on Lemmy where people make angry comments calling out downvoters for downvoting instead of replying with counterpoints. I agree with your points in theory but from a behavioural perspective I think anonymous downvoting might discourage courage to post new or controversial ideas.
I think there’s just a lot of american leftist reactionaries on this site and it’s sort of a microcosm of the US left mob mentality right now.
But you’re here, and even though you’re getting downvoted the mods are mature and open to differing opinion. So keep speaking your mind respectfully and if your ideas make sense eventually other will join and the culture will evolve. Or it won’t, and move onto something else that fulfills you and helps you learn and enage in community.
