It scares me for our future that you have so many downvotes for speaking openly and truthfully, while so many incorrect and nonsense takes are nothing but dozens of upvotes (ie Trump is barred from running because its his third term). That this platform seems to skew substantially more educated than most and seems to react this negatively to truth and positively to misinformation actually has me hoping I’m interacting with bots as the alternatives are scarier.
Maybe they should just take away the downvote . A lot of subreddits ended up doing that because the majority of visitors don’t read the rules and blindly downvote anything that doesn’t fit their narrative/beliefs/opinion/etc… That was not the original intent on reddit and I’m assuming and hoping the same for lemmy. But who the fuck knows. I’m just some guy and it’s the Wild West out here as this thing grows legs.
It scares me for our future that you have so many downvotes for speaking openly and truthfully, while so many incorrect and nonsense takes are nothing but dozens of upvotes (ie Trump is barred from running because its his third term). That this platform seems to skew substantially more educated than most and seems to react this negatively to truth and positively to misinformation actually has me hoping I’m interacting with bots as the alternatives are scarier.
Maybe they should just take away the downvote . A lot of subreddits ended up doing that because the majority of visitors don’t read the rules and blindly downvote anything that doesn’t fit their narrative/beliefs/opinion/etc… That was not the original intent on reddit and I’m assuming and hoping the same for lemmy. But who the fuck knows. I’m just some guy and it’s the Wild West out here as this thing grows legs.