seems like it’s 97% memes or news articles. i love a good shitpost but this site would be even better with in depth nuanced discussion – especially with a higher quality userbase than reddit

    • AnticorpEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I’ve seen some legitimately great points here get lots of downvotes. But they get upvotes too and that’s why I hate that most of the good apps for Lemmy have followed the reddit model of combined karma, rather than showing the split karma. It’s terrible for conversations. There’s a big psychological difference between a post with -15 karma, vs a post with 200 upvotes and 215 downvotes.

      • angrystego@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        You say most good apps. Are there any that don’t do it? It’s one of the reasons I don’t use apps for Lemmy.

        • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Avelon lets you choose how you want them to look. I personally have it showing downvotes when it hits controversial territory (25%).

        • AnticorpEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Jerboa didn’t when I was using it. It’s a pretty good app, it’s just missing a lot of filtering functionality.