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  • Yeah some degree of sorting is necessary when there’s a lot of content, but there might still be another way. Following people, tags, and communities and allowing people to sort things themselves I think might be a better system. I know some people will be obsessed with follower count, but that doesn’t need to be a metric that is actually tracked and shown. I guess at some point it stops being lemmy/piefed, but I do think that we should be thinking about these kinds of things.

    The truth ofc is that any system can be abused but that’s partially a culture problem too, and different systems will encourage and incentivize different behaviors.


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    1 month ago

    I still think upvotes and downvotes are unhealthy and that lemmy and piefed should strive to get rid of stuff like that. There are other ways of organizing and sorting things that doesn’t require such systems.

    Voicing disagreement, support, like, dislike, or whatever you personally put into an upvote or a downvote can be achieved by making posts, reports, or replies. I understand that people feel strongly that making the numbers go up and down makes them feel good, and that many derive pleasure from ratio-ing others, but I don’t really think basing communities around metrics is good for us in any way.

    Community should be about what it is, which is people and culture.

    That’s why I buy my votes from Amazon©, where you know people work hard, have fun, and make history!