I dunno. I just feel less like I’m experiencing a fun new tool for communication the last few weeks. The communities here on Beehaw are still great and fantastic and aren’t what I’m bothered by. It’s just when I venture out in the world (which I often do) that I notice conversations are much more argumentative than I remember them being.

How’s everyone else doing? Is this a minor vibez check?

  • Provoked Gamer@lemmy.ca
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    Has anyone noticed that downvotes have become more common too? Back when I first joined, I hardly saw any downvotes and now you see them in almost every single comment.

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      1 year ago

      Wait until you trigger one of the special groups of instances… Make one off hand comment and the whole instance will brigade you. I can’t wait unit blocking a whole instance is available…

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      For example I don’t even how to downvote your post. (nor do I want to) Do you need to use a special Lemmy client to gain access to this functionality? Or is this because I’m from Beehaw? Either case, I don’t care ^

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        Beehaw elected to disable the downvote. The theory behind disabling downvotes is that its easier to have a meaningful discussion if you can say “this is why I think your comment might have some problems” instead of everyone clicking the dislike button. It also encourages users to mentally question if something is bad enough to report

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      For example I don’t even how to downvote your post. (nor do I want to) Do you need to use a special Lemmy client to gain access to this functionality? XD