My experience
A few hours ago, I commented on a post about a nuclear power plant in Georgia on lemmy.ml:
Why expensive nuclear reactors instead of cheaper renewables?
What happened? 8 likes, 11 dislikes
I am totally honest with you now: This makes me sad, because it’s the same behavior that I experienced on Reddit and why I deleted my account there. Different oppinion => Downvote!!! Now my comment has a “-3” score and I could think about deleting it. I won’t do it, but others would maybe do it. IMO, that’s how we create echo chambers.
I want to post what I like to (not what the 60-vs-40-majority of the platform likes me to post)…
So let me ask you these question:
- When do you upvote 👍?
- When do you downvote 👎?
- When do you do neither 👍👎?
My answers:
When do you upvote? 👍
- same opinion as mine
- a post that I think should get more attention
When do you downvote? 👎
- discrimination
- trolls
- irrationality, ignoring facts
When do you do neither? 👍👎
- different opinion => I write a comment instead
- posts I classify as “not interesting”
I’ll upvote if stuff has citations and references to data or studies to back up what would otherwise be opinion… but having said that if its music I like, or something I find just funny yeah ++++.
I downvote racists and cunty behaviour. Or people aggressive (even passively to gaslight - the amount of times someone has gone off at me oversomething I’m trained in on Reddit for example).
I can ignore a lot of stuff. The internet is big enough to.
Oh and as for nuclear - I used to be against it. As I learned more about it I came on-side. I’d still like more solar, wind and storage though.