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.
  • drspod@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 year ago

    I wondered the same. There are “Hot” and “Active” categories on the front page but I’m not sure how they work. Perhaps commenting pushes a post further up the “Active” feed?

    • Zozano@aussie.zone
      102·
      1 year ago

      This is my impression too. I see both day-old posts with new comments on refresh, so I’m assuming you’re right. Maybe algorithm isn’t the right word, but you get what I mean.

      • silent_clash@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        1 year ago

        It is in fact an algorithm because it’s choosing what posts to put in front of you based on multiple criteria (time since it was posted, votes/number of comments/time since last comment). They are relatively transparent and well documented criteria, though.

        However, it’s not a personalized feed based on your interests and unsolicited data collection, which is what people sometimes mean when they say “the algorithm.”

        • jochem@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s not just a personalized feed, it’s also that the algorithms of commercial social media are created to keep you engaged for as long as possible, so you see more ads.

          Turns out that people are more engaged with outrage than puppies, so the feed can easily become a super negative thing full of false information, which affects the person viewing and eventually the whole of society. E.g. I am certain that the fact that youtube’s algorithm so easily takes you into the conspiracy territory has caused a lot of people to end up on the fringes of society, causing shit like storming of the Capitol.

          • Ne10@mastodon.online
            1·
            1 year ago

            @jochem @silent_clash

            I agree completely.

            And I’d like to add to the algorithm remark that these are pushing for mainstream commercial interests of the platform and under no circumstances following or motivating intellectual, ethical or philosophical engagement. Algorithms are targeting the obedient consumer (George Carlin).