Your partner/mom/cat has been kidnapped, and the only way to save them is to "write a comment that is guaranteed to get downvoted on Lemmy." What do you comment?
"this is almost as good as reddit"
This is a good one. Lemmy is good, but not being able to create avatars or give wholesome awards to posts kinda makes me want to go back
Thanks for the gold kind stranger
(I had to forcibly remind myself that we're upvoting what we'd normally downvote. Good work!)
I don’t see any reason for me to use Linux
If you're already using OpenBSD, sure!
More like OpenBSOD
'Windows is fairly keen on privacy concerns'
I think Spez was just misunderstood.
"We should federate with Threads."
"Israel's actions against Hamas are completely justified."
You can post anything and it will get down voted. Lemmy is as toxic as reddit and people use downvote as a tool to suppress what they don't like, regardless of the merit of the comment.
You can post anything and it will get down voted.
I disagree. Downvoting...
The more I use it, the less I like it. For some reason, it feels like a majority of the people here are already angry and argumentative, and they are happy to snap and make me their current problem.
The hive mind aspect is also ~5x worse than Reddit. People love to cover their ears here, even in constructive conversations. It's a real shame.
Huh. This hasn't been my experience. I notice some hive-mindedness and meme responses, but in general I feel like high-quality comments are more visible here. I also put a lot more effort into my comments than I ever did on Reddit.
Downvoting doesn't really suppress anything.
Also you can effectivly disable it by switching to a frontend that hides votes and sorting by new. I think that's even the default for some instances.
I think you fell for the comment that would be guaranteed to be downvoted.
This, and moreover some instances don't dederate downvotes.
I'm on Kbin so I only see downvotes from other people on kbin.
People on Beehaw don't see downvotes from anyone because it's not a thing there.
Mmmmmmeta
There is a tendemcy for what gets more downvotes.
In particular anything not FOSS and Windows based.
This just feels like rage bait
I'm currently commenting on all the Linux communities - "I don't have this problem because I use Windows" and they're not seeing the irony
All the failed examples of communism that people say "that's only because it wasn't really communism" are really proof of why communism can't work at all. If a system is what it does, then communism always creates facism.
Edit: autocorrect originally changed it to "racism". Still got upvote lol
Every country that called itself communist claims to be working towards this, none have achieved it, most seem to have given up and instead settled on some form of authoritarianism and/or capitalism while claiming they are still working towards this goal.
Taylor Swift is the first ethical billionaire
R.I.P. Kissinger
I'm going to get downvoted for this, but...
Isn't Facebook free software, since it doesn't cost anything?
Firefox sucks.
Reddit did nothing wrong.
Elon Musk is right.
Cars are awesome! Everyone should own at least 3 or 4 of them!
Loving Israel, Reddit and capitalism.
Anywhere on lemmy? That should be easy. Basically go to any niche community and shit on their central theme.
For example explain how windows is the superior OS on a linux instance. Or say you use chrome on a privacy instance.
Or just say “macOS master race” anywhere.
Too far.
Politically I lean ever so slightly to the right.
Almost perma ban right there.
You disgust me.
*spits in your general direction
😂
Leans even more to the right, to avoid it.
"The left can't spit!"
Rabble rabble rabble!
This is just a trick to make me look bad if someone looks through my profile.
Like you need the help, Chomongulus.
Israel did nothing wrong. Ever.
All you meatflakes should go vegan, and if you don't you're a cruel, horrible person. The only reason not to is you're a selfish piece of shit.
I literally just said vegan was a green flag in someone for me and it made people mad.
Firefox bad, chromium good
Spez 4 prez
4 day work week? I did my own research as a manager and find that actually a SIX day work week is better for workers.
The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.
Tbh I'd just say some racist shit. I'm not gonna write the racist things I would say I legitimately believed it would save my wife's life. I am from the deep south. I have all that shit in a neglected shed in the backlot of my brain. Not thoughts and opinions, just hurtful words. And I can't forget them because I was an elementary school vocab whiz when I first heard most of them.
Allying with Putin will fix all of America's problems
Trump's presidency was the best thing that ever happened to this nation
Bill O'Reilly had a lot of great points
Programming isn't hard at all, it's just <this and anyone who is not able to grasp that is immediately stupid
Basically anything creationist in nature stating it as fact
"Limbaugh was right!"
If this comment gets to 10 upvotes, I will donate a Windows PC with Chrome installed! And with Reddit bookmarked.
CEOs are vastly underpaid.
"this"
Nah dawg, you aren't fooling us with this one
I wish this place was more like Reddit
Windows is better.
Linux is way too complicated and gaming is impossible.
And don't get me started on the whole CLI with Linux.
I repeatedly get downvoted by this opinion of mine and this is really a hill I'm willing to die on: case-sensitivity in an OS is just plain stupid.
Depends to a degree.
There are places with a valid reason.
The file system is not one of the places.
Linux is the worst OS ever.
Cannot confirm. The most upvoted comment I've ever written on Lemmy was exactly about Israel/Palestine: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4589158
I don't know if this will change now that I've drawn attention to it.
In my experience just questioning whether "genocide" is the right word to describe Israel's current operation in Gaza will get you piled on with downvotes. You'll basically be called a baby killer no matter how carefully you try to qualify what you're saying.
9/11 was mid at best.
😎👌🌞🤗😂🥰😵💫💯💥🎉
lemmygrad.ml is really quite nice
And hexbear too
capitalism is good
Just type a litany of slurs, but that might get you banned first.
You 🎶 are an unfit rival 🎵
Elon Musk is a hero and we should all praise him, buy Teslas and use autopilot all the time while checking out our phones.
You and I are not the same.
You upvote comments that are relevant to the thread.
I downvote every comment to save your mothers.
I can't do pictures right now because of the severs but insert Giancarlo Esposito picture here.
Lemmy is way too confusing and hard to use
ethical billionaires exist
Honestly the only way to stop the isreal-hamas war is to glass all of gaza
I go to Blahjah Zone (on another instance that allows down voting) and just say the most transphobic shit I can think of.
"I'm not a fan of Linux"
My girlfriend mom cat can take care of herself. She's a good girl, yes she is.
Elon and Tesla are damn near perfect.
Star Trek memes are overrated
Privacy only is an overblown issue, and if we want Lemmy to be successful, we need to be using ads on all the instances. No more than every 3rd post should be an ad. We should also be working to incorporate an algorithm that will push posts from superusers to the front.
Reddit is better.