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Establishing a new Fediquette (lemmy.world)
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Old habits die hard, but there's Reddiquette which needs to be revived, and some which needs to die.

Many "golden-age" redditors remember a time when downvoting was reserved for hostility, not a different opinion. For the sake of our growing community I would like to implore everyone to be awesome to each other.

However, this place is not Reddit.

  • We don't measure in bananas here.
  • We don't need to append "edit: typo" to edited posts and comments.
  • if you see something which is worthy of a downvote: down vote and move on! Don't engage with it and feed the algorithm/engament machine so other people are exposed to it when sorting by active.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you see something which is worthy of a downvote: down vote and move on! Don't engage with it and feed the algorithm/engament machine so other people are exposed to it when sorting by active.

Disagree. You should politely state why you disagree. Engagement is good for newer websites like lemmy and you don't need to be rude or combative to disagree. One of my issues with reddit is when people would get downvoted for making a fair point or observation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really should have clarified this because it seems like a contradiction for me to state that down voting is bad, and to say that when you see something worthy of a downvote, downvote and move on.

When I say worthy of downvote, I don't mean a disagreement. I'm talking about people being obviously toxic. If malicious people want a reaction, giving it to them is not productive.

For example, if I see a post about plant based meals, and a comment states "I'm not convinced that this is really helping the planet, I don't see a problem with eating meat" - then engage politely.

But a post like "fucking vegans lol, I'm going to eat 2 steaks tonight" is not worth replying to. Downvote and move on.