• Farid@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    Ultimately, it’s supposed to be used to make post/comments less visible, for whatever reason.

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      2 months ago

      And it doesn’t really have much of an effect on lemmy at all.

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          2 months ago

          Sometimes it seems like Lemmy users sort by most negative first just so they can keep dogpiling on the comments with negative vote score.

          Which is a Reddit behaviour, and probably came from whatever existed before Reddit too.