Lots of people seem to be using it fine daily

Maybe you need to switch distro and check your hardware

Or if you’re getting lots of crashes, contribute code or money to get them addressed. Otherwise it’s clear your priorities aren’t straight

Yeah. Last thing I want is to deal with all the anti-environment, anti-EV pro-extremist right wing toxic-macho shit bots.

Quality, not quantity. With too many people, moderation begins to fail

I down voted op because it feels like he’s doing the classic bully maneuver where you seemingly either agree with this post, or he’s implied he’ll call you part of the hive Mind or whatever.

Also, personally, I don’t believe op genuinely cares about the answers.

Not a big deal.

Wait until you find out how much ram gets wasted in caching and algorithms designed to run faster on computers or improve productivity. Even things like indexing to speed up search or icon caching

It’s a mobile phone. 13gb is lots, and I’d be curious to see the extent that ai improves productivity.

The headline is designed explicitly to bait arguments

Yes, bias is a thing. Ever hear of the placebo effect? It gives people a bias before clicking the link.

In fact, showing rankings actually makes it easier for bots because of that bias, they just randomly click stuff to appear neutral, and upvote their target posts, which when they say +1.4k, you’ll be biased into thinking it’s a popular opinion. Hence why hiding them by default actually maybe has benefits. There are no advantages to seeing the votes other than abuse. Name some.

As you said, they’re already accessible, so there is no point of bloating the code. Let’s not make them even more so and encourage abuse.

What problem is being solved here by doing this?

My implementation would be hide it from the UI by default for instances

Also, never said unranked… I meant simply hide the rankings. Part of the disadvantage of showing the totals on the UI means that high upvotes make it seem like it was highly popular. It also means that people don’t mindlessly upvote posts simply because there were a lot of upvotes. By hiding them, you know its popular, but no how popular. It changes the way people interact so it’s more normal.

Showing Upvotes/downvotes doesn’t show whether they are bots are not. It just means they’ll upvote/downvote more random shit and mess around wit the rest of the posts, so more crap rises to the top because they’re interfering with the rankings.

There are easier ways to identify bots… And, it just aids abusive people. I don’t think it will assist with bots at all… Sorry.

Problem is, it actually encourages a hive mind. I’ve already had 2 people try to bully me.

I’d go one step further. Upvotes down votes and totals should be hidden entirely. This would encourage people to post based on their own without external influence It reduces the incentive to use bots

Already had one person today mention my down votes .

It didn’t validate their argument at all and without context it can be interpreted in any fashion to make it seem malicious

Something tells me that you’re not at fault…

We have similar extremist dickheads here similar to trump (but Trump helps give them power too).

And yeah… It’s absolutely clear trump won’t change his behavior. That became clear after he had a second judgement filed against him for defamation by E Jean Carroll, and he can likely be sued a 3rd time successfully. He really is dumb as dog ****. Could have spent the rest of his life playing golf lying about his profitability. Instead he chose to offend half of the country, and draw attention to himself and his crimes by bragging

There seems to be a few people suddenly calling Biden racist too, and trying to say both parties are the same. If it quacks like a lobbyist, it is possibly a lobbyist…

But yeah. This is overall probably due to the election more than anything.

People like me (I’m Aussie) will even up vote some things simply because I can’t imagine how bad it would be for Trump to win again… For the entire world.

Because whilst technical people know it has limited applications (like blockchain), business people tend to fall for buzzwords easily because they don’t realise a lot of the things it does were solved in other ways

In my case, I went to the biggest one after leaving beehaw.

I left beehaw because it was clear there was a double standard for one admin between minorities and the rest of us where an admin overlooked someone from a minority acting like a total ass and starting a fight… and blamed me simply because my opinion half agreed with an article that was posted.

Which was such a pity because they other admin there is awesome (and I loved the idea of the instance), but I’m worried it will become a echo chamber eventually unfortunately where you simply can’t discuss things, but only agree with people

Yep. I literally had that discussion with another Meetup leader.

They charge bs prices, and it annoys me that they send ads for their own paid seminar things you can’t block, even if you’re not part of the group

We’re both thinking of cancelling our accounts. The Meetup team don’t really seem to care

Huh? What country do you live in?

You’re not even bothering to look up the suggestions?

I’m starting to feel like you’re not looking for genuine help.

Meetup enconpasses everything from gaming to support groups

You can learn. Don’t be so negative

Join Meetup. That’s what I did. I run a hiking group and rock climbing group now

In my case…

I just left a instance (which rhymes with seesaw) because one of the admins accused me of “starting a fight” and “not being nice” because I didn’t agree with an article that was posted.

It was however perfectly acceptable for someone to instantly accuse me of wanting to kill an entire group of people and of being a bad person (I won’t be specific, but it was a very clear exaggeration and the comment was overlooked by the admin). But, I wasn’t being “nice” because I calmly explained my perspective on the lawsuit the article was about (and apparently having a difference of opinion is considered “fighting” lol). And honestly, my opinion wasn’t extreme in any capacity either (in fact, it half agreed with them)…

And it was such a pity because the other admins there seem so cool, and I loved the idea of the instance (I actually donated originally)

So, yep, I can definitely agree, it’s so easy to move around.

So far, I’ve actually found the people on other instances to be really cool actually (which I wasn’t expecting, because my original instance portrayed the rest of Lemmy as a bit of a cesspool at times honestly)