I’ve been really enjoying my time here lately and I have noticed things.

  1. discussions are more chill. On Reddit people would get into flame wars over things and here while it happens it’s not as bad, and I actually enjoy spending time here.

  2. people are nicer.

  3. moderation is amazing.

  4. diversity in thoughts is also amazing.

    • RadioRat@beehaw.orgEnglish
      12·
      3 年前

      Ah, I’m still getting used to the fediverse thing. On Beehaw, there’s no downvote button.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
        10·
        3 年前

        Which is how it should be. Reddit destroyed all discussions by having downvotes, and discussions died because people deleted their downvoted comments and left the thread.

        • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          3 年前

          Yeah, it took me a while to realize that broadcast content (things like YouTube) ca. benefit from downvotes (as it allows misinformation to be pushed down), it isn’t very useful in a discussion format.

          • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgEnglish
            5·
            3 年前

            It still very much was solely within the scope of disinformation on subs I was on. It just also had unexpected consequences.

            • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
              2·
              3 年前

              I’ve mostly just found that having downvotes ends up discouraging discussion (which is often the states reason for disabling them). With passive media that is already the normal state.

              • Powderhorn@beehaw.orgEnglish
                4·
                3 年前

                I only subbed to interests/hobbies and low-volume cute stuff, so I didn’t really get the full effect. I’ve seen it used to make a disliked-by-some valid point disappear, but maybe 1-4 times a year? It certainly wasn’t high on my list of Reddit vexes.

                • psudo@beehaw.orgEnglish
                  2·
                  3 年前

                  Yeah, it’s not something I really saw in small communities, but once things get to what I’d think of as medium sized it started to be a problem.

    • jcg@halubilo.socialEnglish
      1·
      3 年前

      I think if you downvote stuff in Beehaw’s communities it just doesn’t get counted