“Ladies of the lemmyverse, what’s the sexiest sex you have ever sexed?”

The culture of misspelling lose with loose, excusing it and down-voting to oblivion anyone that dares point out the mistake. “Sorry, is that wrong? English is my second means of communicating with other Homo Sapiens and it was an honest typographical error on my part. Please accept my sincerest apologies.” (original comment remains unedited to fix the typo)

I said this in a similar thread, and it relates to some of the comments here about echo chambers and the like.

Allowing users to suppress virality whenever the feed is sorted by “Hot” or “Active” or “Top” by weighing the value of a post by the popularity of the community it comes from. This way, posts with a small amount of upvotes from a small community can be considered as equally “Hot” as those from bigger communities.

Ideally it’s be an option in selecting the sorting of your feed, but I think even if users only use it sometimes it will help diversify feeds here … and be something Reddit never did too AFAIU.

If meta-communities were to also arrive and be combined with this, you could end up with a really powerful set of feed controls.

EDIT: spelling (vitality -> virality)

Pretty obvious but just plain being rude to one another. I felt like I was stepping on eggshells every time I posted on reddit, like whatever I said was going to be given the least charitable interpretation possible. Let’s be kind and polite to each other here

Always found reddit to be garbage, lots of pointless chained comments of adults trying to be quirky and funny.

Karma farming bots reposting original user content as their own.

It’s not so much a dark pattern, but an emergent property of the upvote system: usually the first commenters tended to have an advantage and late good comments actually would never get enough exposure to float to the top.

Karma farmers would just sit at “new”, spam comments and get visibility for joke and outrage comments.

The solution may be to randomly order comments below a certain threshold and/or within an upvote range.

It’s important to be aware that any negative community tends to snowball to a ridiculous level. If you make an “I hate spinach” community, it pretty quickly becomes ridiculous and likely more serious than you intended.

Some negative communities can be important, but you have to actively combat this snowball tendency. And it’s usually better to just avoid it altogether.

• Downvoting things that you don’t like. Around 15 years ago, when Reddit was very very young, downvotes were almost never used, except to weed out bad advice, ignorant replies, abuse, etc. As more people got in, the downvote button became the dislike button; with people even arguing that that was the original purpose of the downvote button. Replying with a link to the reddiquette got you downvoted even more lol.

• Upvoting useless rubbish comments to the top.

Reddit started to feel extremely consumerist after the mid-2010s, which I always kind of assumed had to do with the general demographic of users largely being people having disposable income for the first time in their lives. It’s hard to describe exactly, but there was a general feeling of fandom around specific corporations that just felt weird to me. I’d like to see more distrust of corporations in general here.

Reddit also felt very Centrist to me, with discussion being this golden ideal. I have no time for discussions with people on the right pretending to argue in good faith and people eating that up.

Also, as someone who doesn’t know much about China or have much love for it, the Sinophobia in unrelated threads was weird, too.

So far most of these have stayed away from Lemmy, but I see some creeping up here and there. The communities here seem generally good at keeping them down, though.

Reddit started to feel extremely consumerist after the mid-2010s, which I always kind of assumed had to do with the general demographic of users largely being people having disposable income for the first time in their lives. It’s hard to describe exactly, but there was a general feeling of fandom around specific corporations that just felt weird to me. I’d like to see more distrust of corporations in general here.

Reddit also felt very Centrist to me, with discussion being this golden ideal. I have no time for discussions with people on the right pretending to argue in good faith and people eating that up.

Also, as someone who doesn’t know much about China or have much love for it, the Sinophobia in unrelated threads was weird, too.

So far most of these have stayed away from Lemmy, but I see some creeping up here and there. The communities here seem generally good at keeping them down, though.

Edit: I will add that the consumerism was also probably driven to some degree by companies figuring out they can use Reddit accounts to drive public opinion of themselves. While Lemmy is smaller it should be free of this issue.

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Subreddits called news that only shows news from a single perspective. Sure if users only upvote a single perspective that’s fine but mods shouldn’t remove things they don’t like if it’s news.

Headlines that don’t match the article. That always ends in rage baiting.

I might be in the minority, but shitpost memes like “I’ll draw a shitty picture every day until x happens” or “I’ll do this based on Y upvotes”, and the “here’s a random hotdog/Gatorade bottle everyday”. I know I can probably just block these kinds of posts, I just never got the appeal of it.

Questions that are answered in the sidebar or wiki should be deleted like in the old forum days. The entire content of some Subreddits was literally the same question being asked over and over again without new input.