• mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s awesome that they are disabling downvoting. One of the worst things about reddit was that comments were downvoted and authors deleted their comments because of it. All because of sensitive snowflakes.

    And as for defederation, they have 100% right to do what they want to protect their community. It’s a community that is used to being disliked or hated. It’s a very good thing that they can have their own popular instance on the web without being forced to moderate hateful posts.

    Put it another way, should they be forced to moderate hateful posts so you and I can enjoy seeing their posts? I think we are fine without it, and specially knowing that they are happier this way.

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      1 year ago

      Beehaw is lovely and everyone is free to do as they please, but I genuinely think everyone on social medias should be striving for something like what Beehaw is. It’s a pipe dream, but trying to aggressively foster positivity and counter outrage is just good hygiene. Negativity breeds negativity and it’s extremely difficult to keep spaces positive, but I think there’s also a path dependence here that has made the internet so much more toxic than it needs to have been, even off of other social medias which have encouraged that exact toxicity for the ease of clicks. It’s frustrating seeing all the misrepresentations of what beehaw is, out and about, but oh well. Appreciate the levelheaded view on the defederations.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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        1 year ago

        It’s because of the karma system on reddit. It’s easy to start caring about that and then the downvotes matters.

        I guess here on Lemmy it doesn’t actually matter.

        • DarkwingDuck@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          I actually enjoyed collecting downvotes as much as upvotes. Not that I would specifically try for it, I just spoke my mind.