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  3. Comparisons to Reddit are ok. We know the reasons for the differences, but this is just about expressing yourself
  • bloodfart
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    1 year ago

    i know we’re winding up this chat, but for the next few days, scroll to the bottom of some threads and see if the barbara pit comments are uninteresting or just unpopular. Just take a look.

    hot and active sort are useless and every instance now has temporal sort to get around it. the algorithm isn’t doing its job on lemmy. that’s a totally different issue and as a person whos actively opposing metrics i’m not interested in it as much.

    and arguing about it isn’t productive for you. youre never gonna convince me the metrics that have done nothing but damage social interactions my whole life are actually good, so you don’t get anything out of it.

    i’m winning.mpg when i argue about it because clearly and thoughtfully engaging with people about my fringe viewpoint exposes more people to it and makes it less likely to get downvoted to oblivion whenever its brought up.

    never wrestle with a pig, you both get muddy and the pig enjoys it. 🐷

    • salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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      1 year ago

      I’ll take a look. I haven’t really examined the bottom comments before. Also I just learned about the Barbara pit massacre.

      I meant the debate is not productive in the sense that we only have our opinions and opposing anecdotes to back up our arguments. I may change my mind after I make the observations you suggested.

      And after all, Nutomic said they’d never remove the slur filter, and yet here we are, they caved in after all and effectively fully removed it by making it fully customizable.

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        1 year ago

        yeah, who knows what will happen tbh.

        it would be nice to get a bottom sort. just to know what people don’t like.