• weex
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    3 years ago

    Care to elaborate? Seems like a sensible change unless you’re in the business of selling dislikes.

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      3 years ago

      Without dislikes you don’t know if people just didn’t like the video or if it was unsuccessful because of the algorithm. Views or likes alone aren’t a clear answer.

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        3 years ago

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          I meant as a user. Now you have no way to know if people liked a video. It could have many views because of advertising or being shown in a prominent place.

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      without knowing how the majority reacted to your video, you cant get a general sense if they liked it or not. also you cant know if youve made a major mistake (such as filming a dead body in the japanese forest.)(emplemon did a great video on why dislikes are inportant, search for it on invidious.)

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      3 years ago

      right-wingers have monopolized dislikes since the very beginning, a lot of “people” will be against this change

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        I feel like I’m seeing that effect here? I never noticed that lemmy broke out downvotes but here we are.