It struck me that a post not having a million likes doesn’t mean that it wasn’t seen and recieved by an audience. Nowa days with companies profiling accounts and sharing and selling info with blatant lack of privacy amd trustability, the human audience or readers on a post would be be thinking of the consequences and maybe prefer not to interact. It doesn’t mean that the post is useless.

Especially with the increasong proliferation of bots, it’s not like the old days and “likes” and the value of a post are different things.

  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    You can downvote a post on Lemmy but you’re still looking at it, maybe examining it, thinking, is this post relevant to others?

    So not having an algorithm to remove it from your life completely makes you less of a neuron-firing drone and more a consciously thinking person.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Well, Lemmy isn’t big enough for that…

    What we do have unfortunately is more than a few people who spin up 5-10 accounts and when they get offended they can easily flip thru them on an app and manipulate votes.

    It’s very obvious, but it seems like admins have given up trying to stop it. If they ban the accounts the person just makes 5-10 new ones again.

    So I just block them when I notice now. But even that’s still better than corpo bots that are actually organized and spreading a message, here its almost always just well intentioned idiots.