So scenario: A news story involving Ukraine enters my feed. I read the article, as one does, and dive into the comments. Usually around the 2rd or 3th post, I’ll see some Z ass post with several downvotes and few upvotes, and a comment chain where two people argue endlessly about shit that ultimately shouldn’t really matter.
Normally on reddit, or any other social platforms with a downvote system, such posts would be towards the bottom, but here on lemmy.world, or kbin, or several other fedis, such post seem to have just as much, if not more weight as highly upvoted comments would.
Now I’m a very casual user, and maybe there’s just something I haven’t set up correctly, but I thought for at least the sake of the user experience a weighting feature would be implemented by default. Here it feels like I’m sorting by controversial with every other post.
Idk, maybe it’s not a problem for other users, but it’s definitely something I’ve noticed here.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing. I enjoy challenging my perception.
But yes i have noticed. I have also noticed that comments are a bit more thought out at the same time.
On a controversial post, there will be actual discourse, even if only among a few people.
I think controversy breeds new ideas and that’s why im here tbh.
Reddit is too bland for my liking. Everyone has the same idealogy. It’s not a bad thing. But I don’t think it’s possible for one idealogy to be “correct” given the messy nature of our station.
Don’t get me wrong. If it were someone actually inviting discussion like “As someone from Belgorod with Russian speaking family living in Ukraine, I fear for their safety under the current regime” that would be one thing. But more often than not, it’s usually something like “Russia’s victory is at hand Those Ukrainian groomers will be crushed” or some other prop that is there more to be spam than discussion.
I’ve actually appreciated the communities here are less echochambery than on reddit. But still it kinda feels like I have to wade through more shit than usual here, and these are in comment sections far smaller than reddit.
What are you sorting the comments by? Sorting them by active might cause that, but I’m not sure. I’ve noticed it happen to me too
On Lemmy.world, I see Hot, top, new, and old for comments, and I’m set to hot like I would be on reddit. Meanwhile, if I set it to top or old for example, it only stay like that until I click out.
Hot is supposedly bugged for most right now. I’ve been sticking with New and Top of Day until they get the kinks worked out.
Longer chains have a lot more weight here, I think. But I heard more complaints about post sorting not working well. So it could be a good idea to check what is really happening and see if and how this could be improved.
