I recently came across a Reddit post with a greentext also posted here a few weeks before (by me). While the one here got downvoted, the one on Reddit got over two thousand upvotes. Don’t take me wrong however, this has led me to realize how much morals differ between the two platforms; it seems to me like Lemmings have overall better morals in general. I’ve come to appreciate this. Evidence like this shows how much better Lemmy is as a community (excluding lemmygrad) when compared to Reddit. Instead of becoming what you swore to destroy, you became better a better version. I thought you all would find this interesting.
Morals, lol. Half of lemmy is tankies that unironically think the guys was great. That’s one for reddit.
I’m seriously anything but a Mao simp. But afaik, the famine in China wasn’t done on purpose, while the Germans industrialized murder.
OP you made the classic mistake of thinking that lots of upvotes means that lots of people agree with the thing stated in post.
It was upvoted there because it contains the nword. It was downvoted here for the same reason. /s
But seriously people upvote and downvote for lots of stupid reasons. Often posts just need an inital wave of up/down votes and anyone that comes after will just go with the preexisting judgement out of herd mentality.
I’ve changed apps since then but Jerboa allowed you to hide the vote count so you couldn’t see what everyone else voted for. It was interesting turning it on and off to see how I voted compared to the herd
Would be interesting to have it behave like polls where it shows the results after you voted.
Did that post call Hitler the n word? That probably has more to do with the downvotes here
I just checked the OOP on Reddit, and it is indeed censored there (not just censored by OP here). Lemmy version does not seem to be similarly censored. You may be onto something.
Reddit content is posted by bots and/or upvoted by related bot farms. No human general morality is involved in what gets popular.
I remember removing that post after someone reported it, but it wasn’t a judgement of you, OP.
Most of us get that Anon uses bad language and that reading it isn’t the same as agreeing with it, but I thought seeing an uncensored N word was going to be over the line for this group.