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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Voting like this is a bit of a dark pattern, though. Especially downvotes. They come from places where the platform owners want to download the responsibility of community management to the community itself. This has a nasty tendency to silence valid criticism while simultaniously supporting brigading behaviour.

    At the very least, we should be having serious, design-focused discussions about eliminating or highly restricting downvotes.


  • Remember when forums would be super active with, like, 500 users?

    “Millions of users” is a vanity stat. The critical mass needed to keep a discussion group alive is actually quite small – assuming you’re interested in, you know, discussing things. So, how active “Lemmy” is is entirely dependent on which topics you’re interested in.