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I’ve been on lemmy for over a year now, and I just realized I used to read all those HackerNews articles + their comments, I haven’t done that in probably 6 months because the discussion here has gotten much better. What’s changed for you with Lemmy over the last year?

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not great, but at least downvotes barely affect anything other than visibility of top level comments on popular posts, and are easy to hide. Better that than people disagreeing using lazy insults and tired truisms.

[-] 13esq@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I often think the place would be better with no downvotes.

If you think a post/comment is good, then upvote. If you think a post/comment is bad, then either get over it and move on or grow a pair and say why.

The freedom of expression means that you have to read/hear/see things that you might not like every now and again, but I'd much rather that than end up in another echo chamber.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

From what I've heard, there are instances that don't have downvotes. People should be able to vote how they want. Could you imagine... wanting to tell people how they can vote? I certainly cant.

[-] 13esq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not telling anyone anything, I'm just saying it'd be shame to end up in another echo chamber, despite the knowledge that I know other people are absolutely fine with that idea.

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