My experience

A few hours ago, I commented on a post about a nuclear power plant in Georgia on lemmy.ml:

Why expensive nuclear reactors instead of cheaper renewables?

What happened? 8 likes, 11 dislikes

I am totally honest with you now: This makes me sad, because it’s the same behavior that I experienced on Reddit and why I deleted my account there. Different oppinion => Downvote!!! Now my comment has a “-3” score and I could think about deleting it. I won’t do it, but others would maybe do it. IMO, that’s how we create echo chambers.

I want to post what I like to (not what the 60-vs-40-majority of the platform likes me to post)…

So let me ask you these question:

  • When do you upvote 👍?
  • When do you downvote 👎?
  • When do you do neither 👍👎?

My answers:

When do you upvote? 👍

  • same opinion as mine
  • a post that I think should get more attention

When do you downvote? 👎

  • discrimination
  • trolls
  • irrationality, ignoring facts

When do you do neither? 👍👎

  • different opinion => I write a comment instead
  • posts I classify as “not interesting”
  • wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    I also up vote anything that stimulates conversation, even if I disagree with the comment. Unless it’s click baity or the sorts. What makes lemmy great is the posts with great comment threads that you can get lost in, where people are polite