I feel like non political posts are controversial more often now than they were before. Ive seen it on some communities I visit often.
Maybe I’m seeing smth that isn’t there.
Maybe its to do with more reddit migrations who aren’t as accusatomed to Lemmy?
Has anyone else noticed it?
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It does feel like there’s a new wave of change, I have no idea if it’s due to new reddit refugees or general discontent. But yes, there does seem to be a lot more down voting, more quarrelsome comments, less cohesion within some communities.
There’s also been a few posts sprinkled across instances discussing some accounts that do nothing but down vote. No comments, no posts, just down votes
Yep I’ve heard of the downvotes only accounts too. Infact I’ve heard of admins wanting to remove em too
Maybe we could make it so when you get an upvote you “spend it” when you down vote? Would also encourage everyone to upvote more too.
Dont need anymore gamification of social media. Best just to ignore it imo
Downvotes impact visibility of content
some accounts that do nothing but down vote. No comments, no posts, just down votes
I’m noticing a lot of those too!
I suspect checking the data isn’t possible?
You can use tools like https://lemvotes.org/ to have an idea of what is happening on a specific post
Not always true, instances can defederate lemvotes so that it doesn’t function I believe.
Recently I learned that it does not work anymore with lemmy.ml, so its probably because of that
Yea, .ml had defederated with it, but any instance can if they want.
Define nonpolitical.
Even stuff like science facts or memes.
Posts that neither directly talk of countries, governments, ideologies nor directly imply anything about em
I think people are tired of that type of internet culture.
The culture of things that are not inherently political?
Memes in general… Are just a waste of my time imo.
why don’t you/they just block meme communities then? downvoting memes because they are memes does not make any sense when they are posted to communities made for that reason
I usually do block communities eventually. I don’t know I guess I forget that’s an option until it annoys me enough.
It’s just nonsense and a waste of time for many people.
It’s increasingly hard to find things that are like that for everyone. It’s an unfortunate trend that means I have to very aggressively curate my feeds to keep from being dragged into it.
I don’t see it happening here yet, but your comment now has me on alert. I escaped Reddit to get away from all that ad hominem and straw man indignation crappola. I was happy to see the Lemmy sign-up process was more extensive than just a captcha and email confirmation, but in the long run it won’t be enough. I think ultimately it’s the decentralization that will have the biggest protective effect.
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