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Establishing a new Fediquette (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Zozano@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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.
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[–] Zozano@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I really should have clarified this because it seems like a contradiction for me to state that down voting is bad, and to say that when you see something worthy of a downvote, downvote and move on.

When I say worthy of downvote, I don't mean a disagreement. I'm talking about people being obviously toxic. If malicious people want a reaction, giving it to them is not productive.

For example, if I see a post about plant based meals, and a comment states "I'm not convinced that this is really helping the planet, I don't see a problem with eating meat" - then engage politely.

But a post like "fucking vegans lol, I'm going to eat 2 steaks tonight" is not worth replying to. Downvote and move on.