I dont agree that those studies change much since they focus on likes and are focusing on public social media where your likes are shown to friends. For the purpose of the discussion lets accept your premise and assume that people will vote biased based on whatever the majority like/dislike is, im still struggling to see what problem this is causing.

In your technical thread example we assume the “best” comment will be the most upvoted. But it wouldnt be considering that most upvoted will be the earliest comment that sounds reasonable enough to get mass upvotes and then it will out compete other comments via upvote bias. Since people are more likely to vote things if they are upvoted so we cant just trust upvoted comments. Here we just trust that the majority of people know best and show the highest rated comments first (if the user has comments sorted by top)

In the controversial thread you suggest we hide upvotes from people and show them comments in a random order and force users to vote before votes are revealed. So now people will see a political question/topic and enter the thread only to be greeted with random quality of comments. I fail to see the value of this. If I wanted to sort through a bunch of stupid takes I could sort by controversial. I don’t think its a good user experience to to open threads on spicy topics and see a bunch of unfiltered takes by default.

I think the current system works well for displaying good comments to the average user. If you want to see controversial comments there is a sort option that does just that. Its good to open a spicy thread and get an instant sanity check. If users are constantly having to sort by “controversial” to find opinions they agree with, that may say more about the distribution of opinions on the platform than a flaw in the voting system itself. It seems you are trying to find different ways to sneak opinions in front of people hoping these changes will change how they’re received.

Sorry I was wrong. Your post made it seem like this was not working at all.

No OPs point is not that there are bugs and deletions arent federating properly. OP expects functionality that doesnt exist and does not make sense and believes they are being tricked by this feature not existing.

Ok that study found people were more likely to upvote upvoted posts. They did not find people were more likely to downvote downvoted posts.

So I think it proves my point and kind of goes against your entire post. People arent down voting posts mindlessly they are doing it because they dont like the post. So why do we need to rework how down votes work?

How has anyone been mislead

Why do people obsess so much over how many up/down votes a comment gets? On reddit the reason you didn’t want to be down voted was because you would get timed. You would have to wait 10 mins to hours between comments. You would be blocked from posting in certain communities.

Here it does nothing except rank you comment slightly lower. The threads are not exactly so huge that you’re getting buried.

Often a ton of down votes isn’t sheep behaviour its just the majority opinion. I think we can give people enough credit that they aren’t down voting things because they are down voted they are down voting them because they don’t it.

Actually he is. He wants his account deletion to delete all his comments and federate that out. However if that were how it works it would be very misleading to users because they would expect their posts to be deleted across the fediverse when that wouldn’t be the case. Some servers would retain that data and not comply with deleting all the comments.

I’d like to see some of the bigger Foss creators highlight lemmy again. Its come along way and its community has proven that its here to stay.

This comment is extremely stupid and doesn’t even warrent a reply.

Not really. The above person said I hate lone developers building their own apps. No, I just dont care unless its on a platform that aligns with my ideals.

I dont see any valve in apps built that help transition people into another corporate social media ecosystem. In 5 years bluesky will make the same userhostile choices of facebook, reddit, instagram, twitter.

I dislike bluesky. This app is built on bluesky and therefore I can lump it in with bluesky.

Since bluesky is a centrally controlled for profit platform. It will eventually close its doors to projects like pinksky once it gets big enough. So what is to celebrate?

Dam they’re really doing it. They’re taking whats been build here and making a corporate clone.

There is loops but its very very new so not as polished as other apps.

I like what we have here on Lemmy with the multiple different frontends.

I like the different instances having their own branding but i like the option to switch back to the normal theme. I also like when users put their own spin on the services logo instead of using something unrelated.

There should be some money in it. We want instance Admins to have at least the server hosting covered.

Dam even switched over to Emacs. My dude you didn’t have to go that far. :)

The Fediverse and open source world do give me hope. But my worry is seeing people not adopt them. I know they aren’t pertect but compared to the big tech alternatives they’re a no oasis.

What does dross mean?

Associated Press is great for world news. They’re a bit slow but you get less mistakes.

For important news like Linux news, destination Linux, brodie Robinson and the Linux experiment are my goto.