Did anyone else here noticed?
No matter the subject or your opinion, there’s always people down voting you.
I don’t care about up/down votes but we can’t deny that’s a way to know the acceptance of your thoughts by the community.
I tried to make some posts absolute neutral, just asking simple things to see if people discuss and interact which each other and me, I just got down voted out of nowhere.
Right now I’m seeing the karma count fighting going up and down, some people just down vote out of nowhere without any possible logic explanation.
Did anyone figure out what’s up with those people?
Discussing on Reddit feels like a fight to know who has the best opinion of all, you just aren’t allowed to think different or they’ll down vote you to hell.
I don’t know what specific situation you found yourself in. It can depend a lot on the subreddit you post to.
I have not used Reddit in years at this point, but when I did use it, I definitely had some posts that were positively received. I had others that were negatively received or outright removed by mods. You need to be aware of the rules (written and unwritten) of the community and align with those rules if you want a positive response.
Lemmy definitely has some of that dynamic as well, but I think that it tends to be more personal because the community is smaller. On the other hand, there are some opinions which are so unpopular with the Lemmy community as a whole that they are unlikely to be positively received anywhere on Lemmy, whereas Reddit is big enough that any type of opinion generally has its own community.
It’s such a sprawling conversation, it’s difficult to capture it all concisely. I would like to add to your comment, the number of Cambridge Analytica style bots and disingenuous agents. Plus all the dummies who mindlessly parrot them.
There was a time where I would try to meaningfully engage with anyone to gain a wider perspective, being conscious of filter bubbles, but dissenting voices were always void of substantive reasoning, logic or fact. It was almost always disingenuous, spurrious fallacies.
Now I only engage with people who disagree and put up some evidence of consciousness and reasoned arguments up front. A well documented technique in online debate/disinformation is exhaustion. Control the narrative via flooding all chanels with bullshit, and the power of short simple repetition until lies become truth.
Edit: Exhibit A is the dumpster fire that is the Fascist States of America and the rise of the tech lords. AI only further serves to control the narrative.
I agree completely. I have always been a believer in good-faith debate, but it is rare to find someone who will engage in good-faith debate about their disagreements. Most people are either not willing to debate at all, or not willing to debate in good faith. You have to learn to recognize those situations and avoid wasting your time and energy on them because it’s pointless.