Before I met my boyfriend (seahorse) I hadn’t heard of Lemmy or the word Fediverse. I didn’t know there was this world of federated servers people could host independently that communicate with each other. I am by far not a techy. He told me he ran an instance. My response was exactly, “What is Lemmy instance? Idk about such things.” I gave this silly response because I felt a bit stupid due to my ignorance. Hosting. Servers. What? During my short time here I have seen a stark contrast between Lemmy, and FB and IG. I feel sort of a sense of leveling up (thanks to him). I still have my accounts on the latter two social media platforms, but dislike them for several reasons. I like that Lemmy isn’t a popularity contest. People don’t post pictures depicting a fake perfect life, there is no competition for followers/friends, and no one is trying to sell me something. I hope this sticks. I hope to expand my use of Lemmy and my knowledge.

  • @southerntofu
    5•2 years ago

    Agree with all you say! I personally would welcome a change like on HackerNews where the post score is only shown to the poster themself, and others only see whether the score is overall positive or negative. Of course this is harder to achieve in a federated setting because you’ll either propagate votes (in which case an instance may make them public) or have the originating instance hand over the current score but then it has to be trusted with it (one instance could ignore downvotes to pretend their content is always cool).

    Welcome around @Redpandalovely@midwest.social i hope you have a great time arguing about a topic of interest to you ;)

    • Redpandalovely OP
      1•2 years ago

      Thank you! I can see that as a positive change for the poster to see the upvotes.

      • @X_Cli
        3•2 years ago

        You can also hide votes altogether, which is a good thing. This limits expectations and helps fighting against addictive behaviors related to social rating.