I’ll start. Non serious answers also welcome

  1. Linux (Linux)

  2. FOSS or die

  3. Video content should have been text

  4. Not caring a LOT about privacy makes you a non-lemmy normie

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    420·
    1 year ago

    Re: the silent downvoting: IMHO, it’s childish and worse than toadying as it’s both inherently cowardly and lacks any real effort at all. If I thought it would constructively improve the platform, I’d suggest a daily rationing of them, but what’s the point?

    edit: D’awww, the chickenshits took the time to click. That’s adorable.

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      Many comments don’t deserve any effort beyond a downvote. Whether you like it or not, it’s how the system is designed to work.

      In this case I downvoted you for being a condescending piece of shit in your edit. Otherwise I probably would have ignored you and moved on.

      • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        15·
        1 year ago

        Sorry, kiddo, but that’s not “how the system is designed to work” (you’d know this if you actually read the community guidelines, rather than just wandering in and assuming it was Reddit 2.0), and instead is simply finding a similar fate that etymological morphology suffers at the hands of illiteracy.

        Swing and a miss. Next.

        • nycki@lemmy.world
          31·
          1 year ago

          We’ve got a linguistic prescriptivist here! Everyone come and look at the guy who’s sick of stuff shifting over time in response to community sentiment!

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Upvote/DownVote/Likes/Thumbs Up/Etc etc are all bullshit and have ruined online discourse by, for the majority of online interactions, gamifying and distilling it into whatever reaction the poster… on some subconscious if not conscious level, whatever will get them the most positive praise and trigger that dopamine dump in the brain.

      And thats when its not just dogpiling people who are saying things that are true, but you just dont want to hear.

      internet would be better if this shit never existed.

      • Globulart@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s a tough one, the dopamine hit is real and encourages engagement, which drives up the active userbase and makes for more opportunity for discussion.

        They get abused too but a forum with none of it won’t grow in nearly the same way as one that makes use of it. People like to earn something (karma, upvotes, whatever) even if it has no tangible value.

        Honestly, reddit kinda nailed it but then made it very hard to keep supporting them when they took a steaming shit on the mods and massively overpriced the api to ensure they had more control of the userbase.

        Overall I don’t think they’re hurting too badly from it though and I’m sure the extra ad revenue they get from ensuring everyone uses their app helps to dry their tears. Probably a smart business decision (at least in the short to medium term), depressing as that might be.

    • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.caEnglish
      59·
      1 year ago

      It really is the embodiment of that old joke about people never wanting to hear other people’s opinions, and only wanting to hear their own opinion parroted back to them by someone passably eloquent.