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.
It’s an environment that’s mechanically centered around dunking on people. It’s all upvotes, downvotes, and arguing. The design of the platform itself encourages it, because that’s what it’s built to do. Lemmy isn’t really any different, it just hasn’t had as long to develop the same level of toxicity. The same mentality is here too, though, and is growing pretty consistently.
A year ago Lemmy felt like a relative breath of fresh air in comparison to what it’s quickly become. These threads are half arguments and the feeds are half people spamming 6 threads in five minutes to build up some sort of visibility.
Honestly I feel like Lemmy sort of tricked me into wandering into Reddit 2 after having mostly left Reddit.
There are so many users on both that exclusively (or nearly exclusively) contribute “gotcha” replies only. Never an original thought or comment. They only want to “call out” others. Sniper-camper mentality. You can easily see it in their histories. I block them aggressively.