Something similar drove me off 4chan’d /b/ back in the day. At some point, it became absolutely not random, but simply dedicated to various porn - porn that surely had their own board, which made me even more confused as to why post it in a place that is specifically made for basically uncategorised content that shouldn’t fit anywhere else.
Eh, I liked the fact that Reddit has boilerplate rules for everyone to follow, basically. I know a lot of that is ignored, but it’s not a bad idea.
The coolest thing about having all that federated is the non-monolithic approach. Different instances can kinda be seen like different backups, especially during the first waves of power users happily self-hosting instances. Everybody wins when there’s a healthy balance between what kind of power the everymen and the more powerful ones have. Not that there’s some looming overseer for Lemmy, but the point remains.
Completely agree. At first, I though that the Reddit’s voting system is great, as it aims to be somewhat similar to the approach Stack Overflow has taken, with actually helpful answers ending up at the top… which does not apply to what Reddit is, which is a forum, which is a bunch of people sharing opinions most of the time, and voting on that has never been a great idea.
Hitting an upvote or a downvote is a very basic type of engagement, a way of expressing something without having to say anything. And it’s not doing much good to a forum-like platform. I’ve been trying to find places that don’t have any vote systems, akin to the old-school forums, but I wasn’t able to find anything that fit my taste or activity preferences (feel free to point to some if you know any).